Kevin Jackson presents a five-part magazine series for omnivorous book readers. Has quality kept up with quantity when it comes to the growing number of collected essays on film? Gilbert Adair attacks standards of modern criticism.
Each week. The Guilt List features one of those must-read, never-finished classics. First off the shelf is The Iliad. Edith Hall and Ruth
Padel discuss new ways of reading Homer and recommend related books, including a study of combat trauma in Vietnam.
Plus an insider's view of literary life: novelist Anne Enright reflects on deadlines - if she makes it.
Producer Abigail Appleton