How to Read

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Predictability in life and art (with Caroline Levine)

Posted December 4, 2020 • 00:16:58

Do you want to live a predictable life? Can great art ever be predictable? Most

Why we click with art (with Rita Felski)

Posted November 20, 2020 • 00:17:11

Why do we click with some works of art and not others? Why does itClick...

32. The value of local knowledge

Posted November 6, 2020 • 00:17:40

When you think of an expert or specialist, you might picture a scientist with a lab coat and test tubes. Science likes to claim that its knowledge applies...

31. Readers under lockdown

Posted October 23, 2020 • 00:17:18

What’s happened to reading during the COVID-19 pandemic? Some people are too busy or stressed to read, while others are reading more than ever but...

30. Images of protests

Posted October 9, 2020 • 00:16:26

Images of protest have a visceral power to grab our attention. Colin Leach has been studying how we react to different kinds of protest images. For...