The world's most mysterious manuscript
b'With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi \\u2013 The meaning of the 15th-century Voynich manuscript \\u2013 a strange compendium of undecipherable signs, astrological symbols and pictures of nude bathing women \\u2013 has long eluded scholars. We\'re joined by bibliographical sleuth Nicholas Gibbs, who appears to have discovered the manuscript\'s secret; to mark the double anniversary of one of America\'s greatest poets, Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Paul Muldoon \\u2013 himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and Poetry editor at the New Yorker \\u2013 reads his new poem \'Robert Lowell at Castletown House\'; finally, TLS Fiction editor Toby Lichtig discusses the latest releases from established writers (including John le Carr\\xe9 and Salman Rushdie) and debut novelists (Gabriel Tallent and Fiona Mozley)
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