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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, to discuss William Blake, who saw wonders everywhere (including a tree on Peckham Rye), and communicated them urgently in art and poetry \\u2013 what does he have to tell us now?; the critic and writer Michael Kerrigan guides us through the \\u2018improbably enthralling mundanities\\u2019 of the Uruguayan novelist Mario Levrero; plus, a dazzling history of Sicily, the demise of local journalism, and \\u2018bald\\u2019 philosophy.

William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs

The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott

Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The vanishing world of the local journalist by Roger Lytollis

Bald: 35 philosophical short cuts by Simon Critchley

The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean history by Jamie Mackay

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