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...
Given what we know about the future of the planet, Meehan Crist asks: is having children a matter of consumer choice, of political conviction, or something an authority will eventually decide for us?
Colin Burrow ranges from Homer to Ian McEwan in his search for the truth about the relationship between lies and fiction, in this LRB Winter Lecture.
We look back at 40 years of the LRB in our anniversary event at Conway Hall.
Ben Campbell traces the history of the London Review of Books through its typography and cover art.
Alan Bennett reads from his short story, ‘The Uncommon Reader’, first published in the LRB in 2007, in which HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading.
Anne Enright talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her latest novel, Actress, and other works.
Julia Ebner discusses her experiences going undercover in various extremist groups, including White Supremacists, German Neo-Nazis and ‘Trad Wives’, as described in her new book,...
Rachel Cusk talks to Chris Power about her latest book, Coventry, a collection of essays.
Economist Ann Pettifor talks to Grace Blakeley about the origins of the Green New Deal, and why we need it.
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