Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
In The Plague, Jacqueline Rose uses the recent experience of the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the writings of Simone Weil to investigate how we might learn to live with death when it intrudes more closely than we might like on our lived experience.
Maureen McLane reads from her work and talks to Will Harris, who also reads from his new collection Brother Poem (Granta).
In Revolutionary Spring, a series of brilliant set-pieces, pre-eminent European historian Christopher Clark brings back to our attention the extraordinary events of the Spring of 1848. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest to Berlin to Rome to Palermo, a whole continent was embroiled in struggle, hope, revolutionary fervour and ultimately reaction.
Nicole Flattery discusses her mordantly funny debit novel, Nothing Special, with Claire-Louise Bennett.
Clare Bucknell argues in The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture that the selective way in which poetry has been presented over the past three centuries tells a fascinating story about the democratisation of literature, class, gender, politics and nationalism.
Building on her essay ‘Does anyone have the right to sex?’, first published in the LRB in 2018, The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan explores the political and cultural dimensions of sexual desire, and its frustration.
Srinivasan was in discussion with co-editor of the LRB, Alice Spawls.
Jacqueline Rose discusses her book On Violence and On Violence Against Women with Jude Kelly.
Bidisha, Terry Castle and Eley Williams discuss the work of the fearlessly original novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner Brigid Brophy.
André Aciman talks to Brian Dillon about his latest book, Homo Irrealis, a collection of essays.
Owen Hatherley talks to Ash Sarkar about his latest book Red Metropolis, in which he looks at the red underbelly of London, Capital of world capitalism.
Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her Booker-shortlisted novel, This Mournable Body, with writer Sara Collins.
Kirsty Gunn talks to Max Porter about her latest novel, Caroline’s Bikini, a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature – that of unrequited love.
In For a Left Populism, leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism today. She discusses it here with Jon Trickett, Labour MP for Hemsworth.
Maureen N. McLane reads from and discuss her work with poet and critic Sarah Howe, on the occasion of the publication of her first selected poems, What I'm Looking For.