Mary Beard joins us to answer the question: Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?, while the TLS's fiction and politics editor Toby Lichtig discusses how the President is presented, in books and on film; and Julia Bell looks back on her Oxford entrance interview - with no fondness - and wonders: "Was it a trap or a test?"

Books

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

Nobody hates Trump more than Trump by David Shields