Not Far From Brideshead: On the Sad Glitter of Oxford Between the Wars

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Daisy Dunn, the author of Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars. Daisy Dunn is an award-winning author and classicist. Her latest book is Not Far from Brideshead: Oxford between the Wars, a classicist’s portrait of the university city, which offers a different perspective on the world immortalized by Evelyn Waugh. Daisy’s 2019 dual biography of the two Plinys, In The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny (HarperCollins/Norton), was an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times and a book of the year in several publications. Also in 2019 she released Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome (Head of Zeus), and the Ladybird Expert Book on Homer (Michael Joseph).