# Mikhail Bulgakov
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Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf] 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the novel The White Guard and the plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), and The Days of the Turbins.
How Big Tech is still getting away with it – with kids’ campaigner Baroness Beeban Kidron
Facebook owners Meta hit the headlines with an $18bn settlement in the US over accusations that its products had harmed kids. But was the bill really so onerous, or just the price of keeping Zuckerberg out of the witness box? Special guest Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE – activist, digital rights champ…
You’ve Never Heard of Russia’s Strangest Literary Genius | Oliver Ready on Dostoevsky and Sharov
Oliver Ready is one of the world's greatest translators of Russian literature, most famous for his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. In this conversation with Jack and Milo, he speaks about what makes Dostoevsky's prose so distinctive, direct, and contemporary, and why Vladi…
Episode 9: The Master and Margarita
In this episode of Booked and Banned: The Podcast, we explore Mikhail Bulgakov’s 20th-century masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. Joining the conversation is Timothy Richardson, an economics graduate and Russian literature enthusiast, to discuss the novel’s surreal narrative and itsincredible jo…
Episode 8: Slaughterhouse-Five
In this episode of Booked and Banned, we delve into Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five. We are joined by Wade Wood, the Director of English Education currently living in Japan, who shares his deeply personal connection to this frequently challenged classic. Wade discusses how the…
Why is democracy in peril?
The hallmarks of liberal democracy are in decline as autocrats gain popularity and power. How did this happen – and what can we do about it? We sit down with Gerald Butts and Prof. Dietlind Stolle to talk about the biggest threats to democracy today and how we can defend against them.
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The demise of democracy with Marci Shore
As the world seems to stumble from crisis to crisis, be it conflicts or economic woes or ethnic violence, it sometimes seems as if we are living through the 1930s again — but in a rogue AI version. Whilst specific crises can be analysed and rationalised, there is a constant sense of déjà vu, be it …
Hypermedia at Scale with Carson Gross (HTMX) | REST, HTMX 4, AI
Do you actually need a JavaScript framework to build your web app, or did we forget how the web was designed to work?Carson Gross is the creator of HTMX and its predecessor, intercooler.js, the principal at Big Sky Software, and a computer science professor at Montana State University. HTMX came ou…
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