I speak to author and academic Lauren Elkin about women walking in the city
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Women Writers at the Movies
Lisa Stead discusses the influence of cinema on a generation of interwar women writers
Credo
For many years I read authors who dealt with religious questions. I immersed myself in the novels and short stories of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and was fascinated by philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. My academic research led me via Samuel Beckett to Dante and Thomas a Kempis. And I felt an affinity with artists,…
A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation
John Corbett on a new pocket-sized field guide to free and spontaneous music
The Ethics of Theory
Robert Doran examines critical theory as a form of ethical practice
Samuel Beckett and Painting
David Lloyd talks about Beckett’s friendships with twentieth-century painters and his enduring interest in the visual arts
Torture in Modern Literature and Culture
Michael Richardson discusses how literature can help shed new light on our understanding of torture, trauma, and affect
Tom Harman on Painting and Critical Theory
British artist Tom Harman discusses how critical theory led him to return to painting