The LRB at Hay

The London Review of Books will be at the Hay Festival next week, with three events and (less important but still notable) 3000 limited edition LRB x Hay tote bags. Please join us if you’re there:

Sunday 25 May at 8.30 p.m.
Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Gaby Wood on Hot Milk
supported by MUBI

In the latest in our series of events with MUBI exploring the art of adapting books for film, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the writer and director of Hot Milk, based on Deborah Levy’s novel, will be in conversation with Gaby Wood, the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation and a longstanding contributor to the LRB.

Friday 30 May at 4 p.m.
Was Jane Austen Gay?

To mark the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, the LRB revisits an essay by Terry Castle which controversially examined ‘the primitive adhesiveness – and underlying eros – of the sister-sister bond’ between Jane and Cassandra, with readings and music arranged by Isobel Waller-Bridge.

Saturday 31 May at 5.30 p.m.
Pankaj Mishra, Benjamin Moser and William Dalrymple on The World after Gaza
supported by Open Society Foundations

In his new book, Pankaj Mishra – essayist, novelist and regular contributor to the LRB – takes the war in the Middle East and the polarised reaction to it as the starting point for a re-evaluation of two competing narratives of the last century.

Whether you’re able to attend the festival or not, you can read, in the LRB archive, Alice Spawls’s review of Hot Milk(the novel), Terry Castle’s essay on Austen and Pankaj Mishra’s lecture on the Shoah after Gaza.