Podcasts & Videos

From their Close Readings series, ‘Conversations in Philosophy’, Jonathan Rée and James Wood consider different ways of reading Woolf’s great novel: as a satirical portrait of her father through...

Rosemary is joined by Matthew Davies, professor of urban history at Birkbeck, to trace this story of London from where the Romans left it in the early fifth century, through multiple invasions, grand projects...

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,...