Podcasts & Videos

James is joined by Massimo Faggioli and Jack Hanson to discuss the conflict between Pope Leo XIV and Donald Trump, and the nature of papal authority and its evolution since the loss of the papal states...

James is joined by the novelist Elif Batuman to discuss the place of The Death of Ivan Ilyich in Tolstoy’s work and the development of realism, and consider the way Tolstoy takes up Flaubert’s contempt...

In May 2002, six months after the invasion of Afghanistan but before the Iraq war, the London Review of Books held a debate: ‘The War on Terrorism: Is There an Alternative?’ The panel comprised Tariq...

In Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Rachel Carson investigated the synthetic pesticides that proliferated after the Second World War. Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith...

Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with...

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson’s first book of original material in eight years, a collection of writings, as she puts it, ‘about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty,...