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The comedian and writer Helen Lederer joins us to discuss gender and comedy and the new Comedy Women In Print Prize; Lucy Dallas considers a clutch of novels in which animals might offer a little respite from human company; the TLS\\u2019s philosophy editor Tim Crane guides us through the riches of this week\\u2019s philosophy issue, including how the advent of biological immortality might augur \\u201cthe greatest inequality experienced in all human history\\u201d and what happened when Michel Foucault took LSD in Death Valley
To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal, translated by Sophie Lewis
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne
The Animal Gazer by Edgardo Franzosini, translated by Michael F. Moore
\\u201cThe last mortals: why we are especially unfortunate to die, when our near-descendants could be immortal", by Regini Rini \\u2013 see this week\\u2019s TLS (in print and online)
Foucault in California: A true story, wherein the great French philosopher drops acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade
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