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The Book Club: A Brief History of the Aphorism
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:43:29
Publish Date: 2025-12-04 00:01:00
Description: My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is James Geary, talking about the new edition of his classic The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism. He tells me about what separates an aphorism from a proverb, a maxim or a quip; about the long history of the form and his own lifelong infatuation with it; and about whether – given our dwindling attention span and appetite for zingers on social media – we can expect to be living through a new golden age of aphorism.

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