LRB Conversations
30 June 2020
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks to Adam Shatz about the intellectual and historical background to the Black Lives Matter movement, and why she’s optimistic that the current protests might...
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LRB Conversations
‘No, I’m not getting married!’
Susan Pedersen and Joanna Biggs, 3 July 2020
9 June 2020
Susan Pedersen talks to Joanna Biggs about Shelagh Delaney and her landmark 1958 play, A Taste of Honey.
Talking Politics
Brexit in the Age of Covid
David Runciman, Helen Thompson and Anand Menon, 2 July 2020
2 July 2020
David and Helen are joined by Anand Menon and Catherine Barnard to assess the impact of the Covid crisis on the fate of Brexit and its implications for what might happen later this year.
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.
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 3 July 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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