The Trial of a New Society by Justus Ebert ~ ...

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Volume One by M. R. James audiobook. Genre: horror In Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Volume One, M. R. James turns the quiet pleasures of scholarship into a doorway for dread. These classic tales follow learned men - antiquaries, librarians, profe ...  Show more

The Five Jars by M. R. James audiobook. Genre: fantasy Told as a confidential letter to a girl named Jane, The Five Jars follows a quiet, bookish gentleman whose country holiday turns uncanny when a murmuring stream seems to speak to him. Drawn deeper into the woods by half-heard ...  Show more

Jake Bonner, the protagonist of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s “The Plot,” writes a novel based on someone else’s idea. The book becomes a big hit, but Jake has a hard ti ...

During her stormy and mysterious life, Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the most prolific writers in England. Her "amatory fictions" were unapologetically sensationalistic, earning her the opprobrium of her mostly male critics. But in spite of being described (some might say ...  Show more

Paris Marx is joined by Anousha Sakoui to discuss the prospect of a writer’s strike later this year, what workers are fighting for, and how the move to streaming has affected working conditions and compensation in Hollywood.Anousha Sakoui is an entertainment industry writer for t ...  Show more

Shelley’s angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of parliamentary reform was attacked by local yeomanry, leaving 18 people dead and hundreds injured. The ‘masque’ it describes begins wi ...  Show more