SRSLY #18: Home from home
On the pop culture podcast this week we discuss Aziz Ansari’s new show Master of None, the film adaptation of…
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Writing under the English skies: how artists handle the weather
Two new books by Alexandra Harris and Christine L Corton show how weather – and pollution – have powered the…
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A Manual for Cleaning Women allows us to watch a virtuoso stylist at work
The short stories by Lucia Berlin featured in this selection are perfectly poised.
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The teen magazines that caught the Sixties as they happened
All the confusion, power and excitement of the Sixties could be seen unfolding in its teenage pop press.
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Kevin Barry wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2015 for his novel Beatlebone
The £10,000 prize for innovative fiction has been awarded to a book that imagines John Lennon’s adventures in Ireland in…
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From Cynisca to the pages of the TLS, if we write women out of history, we only get half the story
History written by men becomes men’s history. That’s why we’ve started a new prize.
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Patriarchal villains? It’s time to re-think St Paul and St Augustine
Paul and Augustine are blamed for any number of historical outrages. But on questions like slavery and empire, they were more…
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SRSLY #17: Highlands and Night Vales
On the pop culture podcast this week we discuss historical TV sensation Outlander, otherworldly podcast Welcome to Night Vale and…
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