The LRB Podcast
21 September 2021
David Runciman talks to Thomas Jones about Silicon Valley’s best known investor-provocateur, his prescience, his mistakes, and why, despite his ultra-libertarian ideology, he owes so much to...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
The LRB Podcast
'Swish! Swish! Swish!'
Patrick Leigh Fermor and Dominic West, 21 September 2021
14 September 2021
Dominic West reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's piece about the olive harvest on the Mani peninsula.
Talking Politics
Q&A: Trump and Everything Else
David Runciman and Helen Thompson, 26 July 2021
8 July 2021
David Runciman and Helen Thompson answer a third round of listener questions, starting with Trump and moving on to where we get our ideas from, what we've learned from all our failed predictions, and whether...
Close Readings
On Emily Dickinson
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary, 21 September 2021
1 June 2021
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O‘Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson, her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 28 June 2021
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
8 April 2021
Anthony Wilks's film traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of...
Bookshop Events & Films
19 August 2021
Jeanette Winterson talks to Victoria Turk about her new book of essays, 12 Bytes, which explores the future of artificial intelligence and what it might mean for the future of humanity.
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