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Podcast: The Shakespeare and Company Interview
Episode: A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
Description: In this special live episode, recorded at the Hay Festival, we were joined by Sandra Newman, whose new novel The Men takes a very stark idea and runs with it. What would happen, to the world, to society, to minds, if one day all the Men, and boysâeveryone with a Y chromosome in factâjust disappeared? Newmanâs vision is of a world set free, but also a world plunged into mourning, in which some structures collapse while others hold firm, in which certain of those left behind cling on to the âreligiousâ idea of Men, and all they stood...