John Phipps

The Literary Disco podcast made me want to throw my laptop at the wall

Plus: if you want to hear some great short stories, well told, head to the New Yorker and René Auberjonois reading Stefan Zweig

George Eliot, author of Middlemarch, one of the 'most effective instruments ever devised for the destruction of human vanity'. Image: Culture Club / Getty Images 
issue 30 May 2020
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