Lectures & Events

From Medusa to Merkel, Mary Beard considers the extent to which the exclusion of women from power is culturally embedded.

In her 2016 Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine.

Colm Tóibín tells the story of Easter 1916, following the main personalities involved, including Thomas Clarke and Patrick Pearse.

Frances Stonor Saunders inspects the complex apparatus of today’s border regimes and their obsession with the verified self.

James Meek argues that the Robin Hood myth has been turned on its head by the wealthiest and most powerful, so that those who were previously considered 'poor' are now accused of wallowing in luxury.

Will Self talks to leading translators Dr Anthea Bell, Dr Joyce Crick, Dr Karen Seago and Professor Amanda Hopkinson about the complexities of Franz Kafka’s German.

Daniel Barenboim calls for ‘music once more to be taught in schools on a par with literature, mathematics or biology’. 

Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed, in her 2015 LRB Winter Lecture.

Adam Philips reflects on the ways we hate ourselves, in his 2015 LRB Winter Lecture.

Franziska Augstein, Norbert Röttgen, Neal Ascherson and Christopher Clark discuss how Germany sees itself and how the world sees it, with Nicholas Spice.

Andrew O’Hagan talks about his work for the LRB, from his first piece on the murder of James Bulger to his more recent essay on paedophile culture.

Colm Tóibín talks to Barney Zwartz, Morag Fraser and Peter Horsfield about the new pope and whether reform is possible within the Catholic Church.

Jacqueline Rose discusses the full range of her work with Justin Clemens at the 2013 Melbourne Writers Festival.

T.J. Clark shows how Picasso’s first history painting, Guernica, changed the way he thought about space.