The Handmaids' Tales

This week, Anchit Sathi asks what an "author" is in the age of AI; and Keggie Carew on the world of symbiotic slime and friendly fungi.'Togetherness: Symbiosis and the hidden story of life's greatest collaboration', by Rowan HooperProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See ...  Show more

This week, Mary Beard gives us the inside track on what it's like to be a Booker Prize judge; and Russell Williams guides us through the highlights of a new season in French publishing.Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Its been a weekend filled with partying.  From the rodeo themed Halloween party to celebrating 10 years of Radio Andy, with the whole team.  I catch you up on everything. Then we get into your calls.  Starting with a woman who believes in the spirit world, someone struggling w ...

This Week: “Persepolis” author/filmmaker Marjane Satrapi laughs in the face of death… satirist Fran Lebowitz plays Nanny to America… author Emma Straub narrates a Hollywood fable… multi-Oscar-winner Ve Neill makes up a Makeup list… and Brendan inhales info about air. Plus, a visi ...  Show more

The ladies discuss Hawk Tuah Girl, Alice Munro's dark secret, and the George Stephanopoulos and James Carville postmortems of Biden's debate performance. 

What do Jane Austen, Simone de Beauvoir and Herodotus have in common? They all appear in three of this year’s Close Readings series, in which a pair of LRB contributors explore an area of literature through a selection of key works. This week, we’re revisiting some of the highlig ...  Show more