{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/9a03fe9e-1ff0-4dcc-b3f6-50bd1f016ea4/3b0d33ce-aa9d-4e18-8ae2-edecbe3a3bab?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Talking Politics Guide to ... Summer Reading","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6195701f2eacc3a36070252a/619570bccb3c660012e3d196.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>We ask regular TP contributors and guests to tell us about the&nbsp;books they've most enjoyed recently and the ones they are looking&nbsp;forward to reading this summer.&nbsp;History, science fiction, philosophy,&nbsp;memoirs and a little bit of politics too: it's all here.</p><p><br></p><p>Sarah Churchwell</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.nyrb.com/products/my-face-for-the-world-to-see?variant=1094930397\" target=\"_blank\"><em>My Face for the World to See</em>, Alfred Hayes</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.nyrb.com/products/in-love?variant=1094929869\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In Love</em>, Alfred Hayes</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Chris Bickerton</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Man-Without-Qualities-Vol-Introduction/dp/0679767878\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Man Without Qualities</em>, Robert Musil</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Hans van de Ven</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-great-flowing-river/9780231188401\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Great Flowing River</em>, Chi Pang-yuan</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Helen Thompson</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/tom-holland/dominion/9780465093502/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dominion</em>, Tom Holland</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Hotel-Years-Joseph-Roth/dp/0811224872\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hotel Years</em>, Joseph Roth</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Emigrants-New-Directions-Paperbook/dp/081122614X\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Emigrants</em>, W.G. Sebald</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Dennis Grube</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/311900/the-fifth-risk/9780241373545.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Fifth Risk</em>, Michael Lewis</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305/305809/middle-england/9780241983683.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Middle England</em>, Jonathan Coe</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Catherine Bernard</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374175771\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In our Mad and Furious City</em>, Guy Gunaratne</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>David Runciman</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/253/253900/from-bacteria-to-bach-and-back/9780141978048.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>From Bacteria to Bach and Back</em>, Daniel C. Dennett&nbsp;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1447289234\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Stories of Your Life and Others</em>, Ted Chiang</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Clare Chambers</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1113605/invisible-women/9781784741723.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Invisible Women</em>, Caroline Criado Perez</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=normal+people+sally+rooney&amp;oq=normal+people+sally+&amp;aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.4943j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Normal People</em>, Sally Rooney</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Chris Brooke</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13276.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>On Mercy</em>, Malcolm Bull</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Paul Mason</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Love-Song-Lives-Weill-Lotte/dp/0312676573\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya</em>, Ethan Mordden</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Tom Holland</p><p><a href=\"http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983755\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nefertiti’s Face</em>, Joyce Tyldesley</a></p>","author_name":"David Runciman and Catherine Carr"}