LRB Conversations
21 July 2020
Pankaj Mishra talks to Adam Shatz about his latest piece for the LRB, which looks at the ways the US and UK have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests, and what those...
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LRB Conversations
Press the Red Button
William Davies and Thomas Jones, 1 August 2020
28 July 2020
William Davies talks to Thomas Jones about the new political polarisation, and what it owes to the online culture of instant feedback. What does politics look like, Davies asks, once the provocation of...
Talking Politics
Whose Work is it Anyway?
David Runciman and Helen Thompson, 1 August 2020
30 July 2020
David and Helen talk with Diane Coyle about what the pandemic has revealed about the changing nature of work. Who is doing more of it? Who is still getting paid for it? Which jobs are not...
Close Readings
The Hopkins Haecceity
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 27 May 2020
23 March 2020
In the first episode in a new series of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.
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Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 1 August 2020
11 March 2020
In his 2020 LRB Winter Lecture, Richard Lloyd Parry considers the paradoxical figure of Akihito, who abdicated in April 2019: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly...
Bookshop Events & Films
11 March 2020
Anne Enright talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her latest novel, Actress, and other works.
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