Modernism
What does it mean for books, music, architecture, philosophy, and art around the world?
New Thinking: Modernism, exile and homelessness—Arts & Ideas
Nathan Waddell and Laura Ryan talk to Jade Munslow Ong about writers depicting precarity
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Modernism around the World
Rana Mitter looks at Bauhaus in Delhi, Japanese and South African novels and Mexican art.
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Futurism
Matthew Sweet and guests look at the manifesto celebrating youth, technology and violence.
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How to Create a Modernist Masterpiece
Will Self, Alexandra Harris, Kevin Le Gendre and Owen Hatherley build up a manifesto.
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The South African Bloomsberries—The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2022
Jade Munslow Ong reads 20s writing by Solomon T Plaatje, Roy Campbell and William Plomer.
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Landmark: Rashomon
David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.
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Landmark: Finnegans Wake
Matthew Sweet discusses James Joyce's groundbreaking novel of 1939.
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Landmark: Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu
A landmark edition celebrating Proust's great novel In Search of Lost Time.
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1922: The Birth of Now
Matthew Sweet investigates objects and events from 1922, the crucial year for modernism.
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Modernism in the 1920s—Words and Music
Lisa Dwan and Anthony Howell with readings from the age of Joyce, Eliot and jazz.
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The Art of a Day—Sunday Feature
Why do writers and audiences keep coming back to one-day artworks like Joyce's Ulysses?
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Reading Ulysses—The Essay
Five Irish writers re-read James Joyce's difficult classic novel Ulysses.
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Dada and the power of nonsense
A project to reimagine the Dada arts movement now, and reflections on satire and nonsense.
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The 1920s - Philosophy's Golden Age
Matthew Sweet on Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno, Carnap and other philosophical greats.
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Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
Matthew Sweet and guests look at 1921's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe and witches now.
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
Can you solve all the problems of philosophy in one book? Shahidha Bari and guests debate.
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Landmarks - Mrs Dalloway—Night Waves
Philip Dodd presents a special edition devoted Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
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Northern Ireland
Anne McElvoy marks the 1921 creation of Northern Ireland with historians and writers.
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