LRB Conversations
13 October 2020
To mark the publication of the latest LRB Collection of essays, about sport, Benjamin Markovits talks to David Runciman, on loan from Talking Politics, about Michael Jordan, home advantage,...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
LRB Conversations
Catholics and Lumpen-billionaires
Mike Davis and Adam Shatz, 28 October 2020
27 October 2020
Adam Shatz talks to Mike Davis about some of the underlying and long-term political shifts at play in next week’s US elections.
Talking Politics
Democracy for Sale
David Runciman, Helen Thompson and Peter Geoghegan, 28 October 2020
22 October 2020
A conversation with Peter Geoghegan of openDemocracy and Jennifer Cobbe of the Trust and Technology Initiative about Cambridge Analytica, money, power, and what is and isn’t corrupting our democracy....
Close Readings
On Adrienne Rich
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 28 October 2020
29 September 2020
In the latest episode of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, the great poetic interrogator of the American family home as a site of trauma for daughters...
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 28 October 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...
LRB Films & Interviews
Old Ties
Alan Bennett, 18 August 2020
24 December 2019
Alan Bennett examines his wardrobe, in his 2019 Diary.
Bookshop Events & Films
14 October 2020
John Lanchester discusses his chilling collection of short stories, which explores the uncanniness of modern life through demonic phones, haunted selfie-sticks and other technology gone horribly wrong.
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