The TLS Podcast

This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality.

'The Word for World: The maps of Ursula K. Le Guin', edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin
'Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand', by Ursula K. Le Guin
'Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats'
'So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018'
'A Larger Reality', edited by Conner Bouchard-Roberts
'Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes', by Eleanor Houghton

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Here is our exclusive conversation with Ed Vulliamy in full as he gives us a look at the letters between his Great-Aunt Gladys and Ezra Pound.

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This week, Ed Vulliamy gives us an exclusive look at the letters between his Great-Aunt Gladys and Ezra Pound; and David Horspool dips a toe into the luscious world of the lido.

'Lido Land: How Britain Learned to Make a Splash', by Tom Fort

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This week, Toby Lichtig on a constellation of new fiction; and Merlin Holland on the afterlife of his grandfather, Oscar Wilde.

'The Palm House', by Gwendoline Riley
'Devotions: Eight Stories', by Lucy Caldwell
'The Tribe', by Michael Arditti
'Lázár', by Nelio Biedermann, translated by Jamie Bulloch
'You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love', by Jean-Noël Orengo, translated by David Watson
'After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal', by Merlin Holland

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April is behind us - here's a look back at some of the conversations we've had this month on The TLS Podcast.

We hear from Fiona Stafford on encounters with remarkable trees, Emily Herring on why we should all slow down a little, Emma Smith on how Shakespeare scholarship wrestles with the gaps in what we know, and Sara Wheeler on the monumental task of becoming Jan Morris’s biographer.

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