Five Lems
Jonathan Lethem, 11 August 2022
29 April 2022
How many Stanisław Lems were there? Five (at least), according to Jonathan Lethem. This short film, adapted from Lethem’s recent piece for the LRB, takes a voyage into the Lem cosmos.
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 1950s...
Old Ties
Alan Bennett, 27 July 2022
24 December 2019
Alan Bennett examines his wardrobe, in his 2019 Diary.
30 October 2019
Watch how the LRB used to be put together, with scalpel and glue.
Bookshop Events & Films
29 October 2021
Hilary Mantel talks to David Runciman and Helen Thompson from our partner podcast, Talking Politics, as part of our series of events on 'The Power Behind the Throne'.
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.
David Runciman and Pankaj Mishra: Histories of Ideas
David Runciman and Pankaj Mishra, 27 July 2022
2 July 2021
To mark the conclusion of his History of Ideas podcast series, David Runciman talks to Pankaj Mishra about Gandhi, Rousseau and Nietzsche, as well as an alternative canon of non-Western theorists of...
6 May 2021
Rebecca Solnit discusses her new memoir with Mary Beard.
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 27 July 2022
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 barred...
Is it OK to have children?
Meehan Crist, 27 July 2022
26 February 2020
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?
Fiction and the Age of Lies
Colin Burrow, 27 July 2022
12 February 2020
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.
The LRB at 40
Mary-Kay Wilmers, Alan Bennett, Andrew O’Hagan, John Lanchester, Yun Sheng and Nicholas Spice, 27 July 2022
11 October 2019
We look back at 40 years of the LRB in our anniversary event at Conway Hall.
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