Close Readings
8 October 2021
In the second episode in their series, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the work of mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich, who wrote the first book in English that we can be sure...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
The LRB Podcast
On John Craxton
Rosemary Hill and Thomas Jones, 19 October 2021
19 October 2021
Rosemary Hill talks to Thomas Jones about the painter John Craxton: why he wasn’t a romantic, why he wasn’t interested in being famous, and his relationship with Lucian Freud, who very much...
Talking Politics
Free with Lea Ypi
David Runciman, 21 October 2021
21 October 2021
David talks with Lea Ypi about her astonishing new memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Close Readings
Encounters with Medieval Women: Repentant Sinner
Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley, 23 October 2021
28 September 2021
In the first episode of their new podcast miniseries looking at the lives and voices of medieval women, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley encounter Saint Mary of Egypt, who (if she existed) lived...
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 28 June 2021
11 March 2020
In his 2020 LRB Winter Lecture, Richard Lloyd Parry considers the paradoxical figure of Akihito, who abdicated in April 2019: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly...
LRB Films & Interviews
8 April 2021
Anthony Wilks's film traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of...
Bookshop Events & Films
19 August 2021
Jeanette Winterson talks to Victoria Turk about her new book of essays, 12 Bytes, which explores the future of artificial intelligence and what it might mean for the future of humanity.
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