Mary Renault's Worldbuilding
The LRB Podcast
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The Myth of Thesis and the Minotaur
You don't have to know anything about the myth of thesis and the Minotaur, any of those things to enjoy them. She always fought off comparisons with South Africa, even though I think actually a lot of them were there in her, in her head. A lot of the points she makes about politics and power in societies resonate with all kinds of societies and resonate with now. The books are more powerful for that, I think.
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