David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of the LRB’s Political Poems podcast, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does...
David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of the LRB’s Political Poems podcast, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does...
Patrick McGuinness reads his diary from our 6 June issue about his family’s hometown of Bouillon in Belgium. He reflects on the linguistic and national barriers he crossed to return there each year;...
The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey.
In episode seven, we turn to some of the earliest surviving examples of Roman literature: the raucous, bawdy and sometimes bewildering world of Roman comedy. Emily and Tom discuss how best to navigate...
The word ‘culture’ now drags the term ‘wars’ in its wake, but this is too narrow an approach to a concept with a much more capacious history. This lecture will examine various aspects of that history...
When Michael Dobson wrote about the printing of Shakespeare’s First Folio for the London Review of Books, he described it as a ‘series of headaches’. When we tried to replicate those 17th century...
Tom Crewe talks about his debut novel, The New Life, which presents a fictionalised account of the lives and loves of John Addington Symonds and Henry Havelock Ellis, and their collaboration on a revolutionary...
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