Bookshop Events & Films

Rachel Cusk talks to Chris Power about her latest book, Coventry, a collection of essays.

Economist Ann Pettifor talks to Grace Blakeley about the origins of the Green New Deal, and why we need it.

Colm Tóibín unpacks the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Thom Gunn, and the relationship between the poets, with help from recordings from the archive of 92nd Street Y in New York.

Anthony Wilks visits poet George Szirtes to find out about the story of Szirtes’ mother, Magda, a Hungarian photographer who survived two concentration camps and escaped Budapest for England with her family in 1956.

Adam Phillips talks to Devorah Baum about his latest book, 'Attention Seeking', which argues, among other things, that attention seeking is the best thing we do.

Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the USA, talks to rising young poet Jay Bernard, and both read from their work.

Terry Eagleton presents his ideas on what makes funny things funny.

Keith Gessen talks to Vadim Nikitin about Russia, socialism, the Soviet inheritance and his new book, A Terrible Country.

On the occasion of the paperback publication of her novel Normal People, Sally Rooney talks to Kishani Widyaratna at St George’s Chruch, Bloomsbury.

Elaine Mokhtefi talks to Adam Shatz about her book, Algiers: Third World Capital, an account of her time in Algiers in the 1960s.

Karl Ove Knausgaard talks to Charlotte Higgins about the life and work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, the subject of his latest book, So Much Longing in So Little Space.

Michael Hofmann talks to Declan Ryan about his first new collection in almost two decades, One Lark, One Horse.

Tessa Hadley talks to Alex Clark at the London Review Bookshop about her latest book, Late in the Day.

James Meek talks to Chris Bickerton about his new book, Dreams of Leaving and Remaining, which features writing published originally in the LRB.

Édouard Louis talks about his third novel, Who Killed My Father, with Kerry Hudson.