Lanchester, Groff and Costello — reviewed by Hannah Kent and Tim Rogers
· 59 min
Episode Lanchester, Groff and Costello — reviewed by Hannah Kent and Tim Rogers
What if the most talked‑about streaming show of the moment was a mirror reflecting your most private fears and failures? That unnerving question sits at the heart of John Lanchester’s Look What You Made Me Do, a sharp novel about resentment, revenge, money, class and generational unease. Plus: the art of the short story, as Hannah Kent reads and reflects on Lauren Groff’s new collection Brawler; and a woman’s inner life rendered with quiet and devastating precision in Mary Costello’s A Beautiful Loan.
BOOKS
• John Lanchester, Look What You Made Me Do, Faber • Lauren Groff, Brawler, Hutchinson Heinemann • Mary Costello, A Beautiful Loan, Text
GUESTS
• Hannah Kent, novelist behind the phenomenon Burial Rites + The Good People, Devotion and Always Home, Always Homesick • Tim Rogers, author of Detours; frontman of You Am I, The Hard-Ons and various musical escapades. His solo tour Le Charme Defensif kicks off this week
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
• Andrew O'Hagan, Caledonian Road • Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, • Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights • Michelle de Krester, Theory and Practice • Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth • Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair • James Joyce, The Dubliners; The Dead • Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain • Colm Tóibín, The Magician • Steve Hanley, The Big Midweek: Life Inside the Fall
CREDITS
• Presenter: Kate Evans, Cassie McCullagh • Producer: Kate Evans, Sarah Corbett • Sound: Craig Tilmouth, Antonia Gauci • Arts editor; Sarah L'Estrange
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