Podcasts & Videos

James is joined by Gillian Plimmer, the FT's infrastructure correspondent, and Matthew Lawrence, director of Common Wealth, to discuss what the failures of HS2 tells us about Britain’s capacity...

James Wood is joined by the biographer Miranda Seymour to discuss Jean Rhys’s virtuosity of technique and detachment, her extraordinary ear for dialogue and the places where her mastery of realist...

In May 2002, six months after the invasion of Afghanistan but before the Iraq war, the London Review of Books held a debate: ‘The War on Terrorism: Is There an Alternative?’ The panel comprised...

In Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Rachel Carson investigated the synthetic pesticides that proliferated after the Second World War. Meehan Crist and Peter...

Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference...

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson’s first book of original material in eight years, a collection of writings, as she puts it, ‘about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert,...