Bookshop Events & Films

Watch the best literary events in London, and films about writers and their work, from the London Review Bookshop.

Tom Crewe and Mendez: The New Life

Tom Crewe and Mendez, 2 October 2023

5 April 2023 · 1hr 09mins

Tom Crewe talks about his debut novel, The New Life, which presents a fictionalised account of the lives and loves of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis, and their collaboration on a revolutionary work that set out to transform our understanding of sexual ethics.

19 August 2021 · 1hr 01min

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.

David Runciman and Pankaj Mishra: Histories of Ideas

David Runciman and Pankaj Mishra, 2 October 2023

2 July 2021 · 1hr 11mins

To mark the conclusion of his History of Ideas podcast series, David Runciman talks to Pankaj Mishra about Gandhi, Rousseau and Nietzsche, as well as an alternative canon of non-Western theorists of politics and crisis.