10 July 2019 · 1hr 03mins
Listen back to an evening of readings and discussion from three outstanding poets, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe.
Listen back to an evening of readings and discussion from three outstanding poets, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe.
To mark the publication of Niven Govinden’s This Brutal House (Dialogue Books), we hosted a round table discussion about LGBTQI+ literature and culture
An evening of discussion and poetry readings with poets Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal
In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis takes on the surrogacy industry – worth over one billion dollars a year in the USA alone, and famously exploitative – with a unique and explosive argument: we need more surrogacy, not less!
The two poets read from and discussed their new collections.
Novelist, journalist and translator Keith Gessen talks about his latest novel A Terrible Country, which investigates Russia’s past and present through the eyes of a Russian-American who moves from New York to Moscow to care for his elderly grandmother.
Sally Rooney breathes new life into fiction. Her novels deal with ordinary life in all its unexpected ways.
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.