Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother

Before we turn the page on July, here's a look back at some of the conversations from this month's episodes on The TLS Podcast.In this month's TLS Highlights, Hannah Lowe reads a new poem with a botanical theme; Claire Harman explores the self-possession and vigour of the younges ...  Show more

This week, we meditate on childhood memories with TLS Ackerley Prize-winner Geoff Dyer; and Ben Street on the tricky business of artists at the cinema.'Homework', by Geoff Dyer'The Hollywood History of Art', by Christopher FraylingProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See ...  Show more

Kazuo Ishigruo’s eighth novel, “Klara and the Sun,” is his first since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It’s narrated by Klara, an Artificial Frien ...

Charlotte Mullins and Katja Hoyer are with Tom Sutcliffe to review The Royal Academy of Arts' Kiefer/Van Gogh exhibition, Nell Stevens novel The Original, and German language film From Hilde, with Love. And Sarfraz Manzoor is on to discuss a new Bruce Springsteen compilation – Tr ...  Show more

Ellen and Mom discuss the faeries, flirting, and fantastical in Jewels of the Sun by Nora Roberts.  Plus, ancestry, football, and spelling.  

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Tom is joined by reviewers Kate Maltby and Stephanie Merritt to discuss Laura Wade's adaptation for the RSC of Somerset Maugham's comedy The Constant Wife. Also Wendy Erskine's Belfast -set novel; The Benefactors. A polyphonic telling of a teenage girl's assault and its aftermath ...  Show more