Tom McCarthy
Writer and artist, twice Booker-shortlisted novelist and long-time LRB contributor, offering literary and theoretical analysis of Don Quixote and media theory in this episode.
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Dec 31, 2025 • 1h 4min
The Man Behind the Curtain: ‘Don Quixote’ by Miguel de Cervantes
Tom McCarthy, twice Booker-shortlisted novelist and artist, offers punchy literary and media-theory readings of Don Quixote. He traces narrative machinery, contagious fiction, staged spectacles and the novel’s tech and economic backdrops. Short, sharp takes on windmills, theatrical hoaxes, books as media and the trickery that exposes the authorial man behind the curtain.
