At the Bookshop

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

Jhumpa Lahiri talks about her most recent engagement with the country and its literature, as the editor of a new Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, with Chris Power.

In Spring, the third instalment of her seasonal quartet, Ali Smith continues her unique investigation into our country’s past present and future, uniting Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Rilke, Beethoven and Brexit.

We hosted the shortlisted authors for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 in an evening of readings at the London Review Bookshop.

Chloe Aridjis talks about her third novel, Sea Monsters, set in Mexico in the late 1980s, with Juliet Jacques.

Fiona Benson talks to Daisy Johnson about her new collection Vertigo & Ghost, the follow-up to her award-winning 2014 debut Bright Travellers.

Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson discuss their book Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire, which argues that at its heart the rhetoric of Brexit was the playing out of older school curricula that had been dominated by empire.

John Lanchester’s new novel, The Wall, is a Kafkaesque nightmare whose richly-imagined world is very different from our own and yet all too familiar. He talks about it here with Daniel Soar, an editor at the LRB.

After the disintegration of the most significant relationship of his life, the demons Luke Turner has been battling since childhood are quick to return - depression and guilt surrounding his identity as a bisexual man, experiences of sexual abuse, and the religious upbringing that was the cause of so much confusion. Turner talks to Olivia Laing about his latest book, Out of the Woods.

Simon Garfield talks about his latest book In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World with Andy Miller, presenter of Backlisted podcast and author of The Year of Reading Dangerously.

Man Booker International-shortlisted novelist Mathias Enard, 'the most brazenly lapel-grabbing French author since Michel Houellebecq', returns with Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants (tr. Charlotte Mandell), his fourth novel to appear in English. He was in conversation with Elif Shafak.

Lisa Appignanesi talks to Lara Feigel about her latest book, Everyday Madness, which explores her own and society’s experience of grieving, the effects of loss and the potent, mythical space it occupies in our lives.

In his latest book Heaven on Earth art historian T.J. Clark draws on examples from Giotto to Picasso to provide an exciting new history of the depiction of the divine. He talks to LRB contributing editor Jeremy Harding.

Peter Carey talks to LRB publisher, Nicholas Spice, about novel A Long Way From Home, and his work generally.

To celebrate the publication of Audre Lorde’s Your Silence Will Not Protect You, Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of the acclaimed Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, discussed Lorde's work and legacy with Sarah Shin.