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There is only one author to whom the TLS devotes an issue every year: William Shakespeare. Michael Caines talks us through the latest theories, research and reviews; Ian McEwan discusses his new novel, Machines Like Me
‘Still a giddy neighbour’ – Shakespeare’s parish in the 1590s, by Geoffrey Marsh, the TLS
The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of interpretation in Renaissance England, edited by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole
Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in longing, by Claire McEachern
Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, by Lieke Stelling
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee that made Shakespeare, by Andrew McConnell Stott
Shakespeare’s Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, print and alteration, 1642–1700, by Emma Depledge
Shakespeare: The theatre of our world, by Peter Conrad
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Cape)
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Feasting on fiction
45:30|This week, Toby Lichtig introduces the pick of new fiction; and Nina Raine on adapting George Eliot's Middlemarch for the stage.'The Rhyl Poster', by Tom McCarthy'Doppelganger', by Sam Riviere'The Brightness', by Chad Harbach'Lords of Serendipity', by Randy Boyagoda'The Death Ship', 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 'The Bridge in the Jungle', by B Traven'Middlemarch', by Nina Raine, from the novel by George Eliot, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, until January 16 2027Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Murder Most Foul
35:40|This week, Frances Wilson plunges into two biographies of the self-mythologising mystery man Edgar Allan Poe; and Will Eaves joins us to read his poem 'The Cat'.'Darkness Becomes Bright: The haunted life (and afterlife) of Edgar Allan Poe', by Emily Ogden'Edgar Allan Poe: A life', by Richard KopleyProduced by Charlotte Pardy
The Wind/Yikes Dichotomy
43:53|This week, Tristram Fane Saunders praises the form-busting brilliance of new Nobel Laureate Anne Carson; and Lily Herd on shooting stars, shipwrecks and hubris through the ages.Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Cabbages and kings
52:44|This week, David E Cooper on a mammoth history of the garden; and Larry Wolff takes in Macbeth at the Met.'The Garden: Our 4,000-year quest for paradise', by Jonathan Bate'Macbeth', by Giuseppe Verdi, Metropolitan Opera, New York, until October 20Produced by Charlotte Pardy
Costume Dramas
47:49|This week, Sophie Oliver on Rebecca West's struggle with her love of clothing; and Robert Poole introduces us to a dashing 19th-century radical.'A Fable for Christians', by Rebecca West'Mad Tom's Rising: The revolutionary mystic Sir William Courtenay and the last battle fought on English soil', by Ian BreckonProduced by Charlotte Pardy
Outsiders
01:03:16|This week, Patrick McGuinness delves into the moving and illuminating notebooks kept by Albert Camus; and Elizabeth Lowry on the untold lives of novelist Anita Brookner.'The Complete Notebooks', by Albert Camus, translated by Ryan Bloom'Anita Brookner: Art and life', by Hermione LeeProduced by Charlotte Pardy
The Cat's Whiskers
53:49|This week, Toby Lichtig on the six Booker hopefuls; and Kathryn Hughes joins us in an exploration of feline mysteries.'Cats: A History', by Rod PhillipsProduced by Charlotte Pardy
Manderley Revisited
35:15|This week, Rohan Maitzen on Rose Tremain's reimagining of Rebecca, and a new way of seeing the terrifying Mrs Danvers; and Jamie McKendrick reads his poem, 'The Importance of Time'.'The Housekeeper', by Rose Tremain'The Importance of Time', by Jamie McKendrickProduced by Charlotte Pardy
Who's in Charge
47:32|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