The TLS Podcast

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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This week, Russell Williams on the French writers laying down their pens; and John-Paul Stonard hails a bravura production of Bertolt Brecht.

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until May 30

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This week, Sara Wheeler reflects on monumental task of becoming Jan Morris's biographer; and Abigail Dembo reads us an intriguing new poem.

'Jan Morris: A Life', by Sara Wheeler
'He Wore His Leather Coat', by Abigail Dembo

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Emma Smith on how Shakespeare scholarship grapples with gaps; and Muriel Zagha admires François Ozon's noir adaptation of Camus's classic novel

'Book Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford: The Quiney Connections', by Marlin E. Blaine, Lena Cowen Orlin, Robert Bearman and Alan H. Nelson
'L'étranger', various cinemas

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