Podcasts & Videos

What kind of satirist was Jane Austen? In this episode from their Close Readings series, ’On Satire’, Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow focus on Emma as the high point of Austen’s satire of character...

James Wood explores what Woolf's modernist masterpiece owes to the techniques of 19th-century realism and the influence of Dickens and Flaubert, and the ways she breaks down these certainties to arrive...

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,...