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This week, a special interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett takes us from Roland Barthes to Leonard Bernstein; and Hettie Judah on two memoirs inspired by a love of 17th-century art.
'The Performer: Art, Life, Politics', by Richard Sennett
'Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death', by Laura Cumming
'The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters', by Benjamin Moser
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Oxford Professor of Poetry AE Stallings explores the elliptical brilliance of Anne Carson; and an interview with writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July about her forthcoming novel.
'Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist', by Elizabeth Sarah Coles
'Wrong Norma', by Anne Carson
'All Fours',...
Published 05/02/24
This week, Kathryn Hughes introduces her new book on the cat craze that swept Edwardian England; and she also tells us about an exhibition of the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman. Plus a review of Sunjeev Sahota's The Spoiled Heart.
'Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making...
Published 04/25/24