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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic and novelist Claire Lowdon to consider Vivian Gornick, an American writer of essays \\u2013 on literature, politics, the self \\u2013 that demonstrate a rare \\u201cability to stand back and look at the world in which she finds herself, and then set it down calmly on paper\\u201d; the TLS\\u2019s poetry editor Camille Ralphs explores the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and some of the literature that inspired it; plus, libraries under threat (again), Unica Z\\xfcrn gets her time in the sun, and the three greatest novels of the twenty-first century...so far.

Taking a Long Look: Essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time by Vivian Gornick

Appendix N: The eldritch roots of Dungeons and Dragons, edited by Peter Bebergal

www.the-tls.co.uk

Producer: Ben Mitchell

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