The Essay Episodes Available now
A Portrait of the Artist—Blood and Bronze
1/10 Professor Jerry Brotton explores the darker side of the Italian Renaissance.
There's No Story There—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
5/5 Lisa Mullen looks at the depiction of war-time factory workers in a novel by Inez Holden.
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There
Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden
Closer—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
4/5 Diarmuid Hester looks at the George Miles Cycle from punk radical Dennis Cooper.
Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer
4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper
Sindhubala—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
3/5 Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi.
Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala
Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi
John Halifax, Gentleman—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explains how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations.
John Halifax, Gentleman
2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations
The Black Lizard—Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf
1/5 New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.
