16 October 2019 · 1hr 04mins
In Against Memoir (And Other Stories), Michelle Tea takes us through the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in America in a series of essays. She talks about them here with Juliet Jacques.
In Against Memoir (And Other Stories), Michelle Tea takes us through the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in America in a series of essays. She talks about them here with Juliet Jacques.
Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and later became the kernel of her acclaimed collection Say Something Back.
Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.
An evening of readings to celebrate the first birthday of Rough Trade Editions with Will Burns, Joe Dunthorne, André Naffis-Sahely, Charlotte Newman, Martha Sprackland
Nell Zink reads from Doxology, a tale that begins with the iconic tragedy of 11 September 2001 and spins out from it into America’s past and potential futures.
Nicola Barker was in conversation about experiment, fiction, contemporaneity and a great deal else besides with the novelist and short story writer Ali Smith.
Deborah Levy's latest novel The Man Who Saw Everything plays with time and memory in a gripping exploration of the weight of history and the disastrous consequences of trying to ignore it.
Simon Critchley explains in Tragedy, the Greeks and Us, in often surprising ways, why Greek Tragedies remain so compellingly relevant to modern times.
Katherine Angel’s Daddy Issues engages with what Lauren Elkin has called ‘that forgotten figure in feminism’s critique of patriarchy: the father’, examining the place of fathers in contemporary culture.
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, An American Marriage is a thrilling depiction of the American Dream in freefall.
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s but smuggled out of Russia with the help of Andrey Sakharov in the early 1980s, established Grossman’s reputation as a 20th-century Tolstoy.
The Writers on Recordings series invites contemporary authors to discuss the legendary voices that have meant the most to them
The Writers on Recordings series invites contemporary authors to discuss the legendary voices that have meant the most to them.
In her latest work Guestbook: Ghost Stories Leanne Shapton, through a series of stories and vignettes, encounters the uncanny.
In her first book Dressed, Shahidha Bari explores the hidden memories, meanings and ideas which are wrapped up in our clothes; themes of privacy, freedom, love and objectification are treated garment by garment.