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Chapter 246: Walking to Jerusalem with Justin Butcher
Chapter 250: 'More Dashing' with Adam Sisman
Chapter 249: 'Our Boys' with Helen Parr
Chapter 248: 'How the Work Thinks' with Julian Baggini
Chapter 247: The Vogue with Eoin Mc Namee
Chapter 259: Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business
Chapter 252: 'Schadenfreude' with Tiffany Watt Smith
Chapter 243: Why We Need Religion with Stephen Asma
Chapter 242: Attention with Joshua Cohen
Chapter 239: 'Music as an Art' with Roger Scruton
Chapter 238: Death of a Translator with Ed Gorman
Chapter 244: The Desert and the Sea Michael Scott Moore
Chapter 241: 'The Book of Common Prayer'
Chapter 245: 'Living with Buildings' with Iain Sinclair
Chapter 236: The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
Chapter 240: 'The Happiness Dictionary' with Tim Lomas
Chapter 234: Robert Graves with Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Chapter 233: ISLA Festival 2018 - Instituto Cervantes
Chapter 243: 'Passing Judgment' with Terri Apter
Chapter 237: Inheritors of the Earth
Chapter 236: My Country: A Syrian Memoir
Chapter 231: The Day That Went Missing
Chapter 224: Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments
Chapter 230 'The Wandering Vine' with Nina Caplan
Chapter 220: The West Cork Literary Festival
Chapter 219: 'Heavens on Earth' with Michael Shermer
Chapter 226: 'The Odyssey' translated by Emily Wilson
Chapter 228: 'Compass' with Mathias Enard
Chapter 227: The Happiness Curve with Jonathan Rauch
Chapter 217: The Female Persuasion with Meg Wolitzer
Chapter 229: 'Science and Spiritual Practices
Chapter 215: 'Why Poetry' with Matthew Zapruder
Chapter 225: Javier Cercas & Jennifer N Makumbi
Chapter: 220 'American Histories' with John E Wideman
Chapter 223: 'The House of Broken Angels'
218: Marx: A Very Short Introduction with Peter Singer
Chapter 210: Writing Malawi
Chapter 222: 'How Shostakovich Changed My Mind'
Chapter 209: 'Moving Kings' with Joshua Cohen
Chapter 221: 'Win Win' with Joanne Lipman
Chapter 216: 'Gorbachev: His Life and Times'
Chapter 214: Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
Chapter 213: 'Solitude' by Michael Harris
Chapter 211: Byron's Letters and Journals
Chapter 212: Why Liberalism Failed
Chapter 199: Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
Chapter 208: 'Freud: The Making of an Illusion'
Chapter 207: 'Humankind' with Timothy Morton
Chapter 206: 'Far and Away' with Andrew Solomon
Chapter 205: Secularism with Andrew Copson
Chapter 204: Significant Figures with Ian Stewart
Chapter 203: Beautiful Animals with Laurence Osborne
Chapter 202: Wonderlandscape: Yellowstone National Park
Chapter 201: The Making of Jane Austen
Chapter 201: Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human
Chapter 200: The Death of Homo Economicus
Chapter 198: What is Freemasonry?
Chapter 196: 'Lou Reed: A Life' with Anthony DeCurtis
Chapter 197: What's going wrong with global media?
Chapter 188: What is techno-emotional cuisine?
Chapter 193: Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years
Chapter 192: Are we all outsiders?
Chapter 194: Does science always get it right?
Chapter 195: Is it possible to stop clock watching?
Chapter 187: Is the essay back in fashion?
Chapter 191: How dirty is the gold mining business?
Chapter 190: Do we all have a blind spot?
Chapter 189: Is there a better way to live?
Chapter 186: What can we learn from the San people?
Chapter 185: Is revenge always pointless?
Chapter 184: The Psychology of Money
Chapter 179: Does everything happen for a reason?
Chapter 178: Who was the real Ernest Hemingway?
Chapter 183: Who and what is Hamlet?
Chapter 182: Does the past impinge upon the present?
Chapter 181: Why we love music
Chapter 180: What is life all about?
Chapter 177: Is Bob Dylan the Shakespeare of song?
Chapter 176: An Israeli-Palestinian love story
Chapter 175: What is your circadian rhythm?
Chapter 174: The West Cork Literary Festival
Chapter 172: Tom Keneally - writing the Catholic Church
Chapter 173: Can great art teach us how to live?
Chapter 171: What does Wall Street do right?
Chapter 170: How did one man change the world?
Chapter 169: Richard Ford - Is love presence enough?
Chapter 168: Are we stuck becoming everybody else?
Chapter 167: Can a building take an emotional toll?
Chapter 166: Words Matter ”“ The Life of Sam Beckett
Chapter 165: Is it possible to let go?
Chapter 164: Who and what is the Frankfurt School?
Chapter 163: Is Marcel Proust the French Shakespeare?
Chapter 162: Has the Cold War really ended?
Chapter 161: Is there a Mariner in all of us?
Chapter 160: How common is shyness?
Chapter 159: Is religion a money making business?
Chapter 158: What makes for an aromatic novel?
Chaper 157: Is chess only chess?
Chapter 156: What is the politics of nostalgia?
Chapter 155: Can we learn anything from the Classics?