Bookshop Events & Films

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

14 August 2019 · 1hr 21mins

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.

22 July 2019 · 39mins

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.

13 March 2019 · 1hr 11mins

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

Tony Wood and James Meek: Russia without Putin

James Meek and Tony Wood, 2 October 2023

5 December 2018 · 52mins

Tony Wood talks to James Meek about his book Russia with Putin, which looks at, among other things, the legacy of Soviet infrastructure and the extent of political opposition in today’s Russia.