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Watch events, interviews and films from the LRB.

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  The LRB: A history in fonts and covers: From Caslon to Quadraat, by way of Stranger Things and Pizza Express, Ben Campbell traces the LRB’s 40-year history through the paper’s typography and cover art.
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  The Lost Art of Paste-Up: What is paste-up? Bryony Dalefield demonstrates how the LRB was put together back in the days of scalpels and glue.
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  The LRB at 40: Mary-Kay Wilmers, Alan Bennett, Andrew O’Hagan, John Lanchester and Sheng Yun and Nicholas Spice reflect on 40 years of the London Review of Books.
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  Adam Tooze: In his Winter Lecture, Adam Tooze examines an alternative, counterintuitive vision of America, as a power defying gravity.
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  Christopher Clark: Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now? Christopher Clark provides some answers in his Winter Lecture, recorded at the British Museum on 15 February 2019.
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  Patricia Lockwood: Watch Patricia Lockwood travel through the internet in her Winter Lecture from the British Museum.
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  The Horror of Doubt: Jonathan Rée confronts Kierkegaard’s unfinished work, Johannes Climacus.
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  Spinoza’s ‘Ethics’: Jonathan Rée explains how the Dutch philosopher learned to love the world.
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  Grenfell: The End of an Experiment?: Anthony Wilks looks at the history and culture of Kensington and Chelsea Council.
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  Rosemary Hill: Rosemary Hill delivers her Winter Lecture lecture on women and clothes, and what happens between them in life and literature.
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  Anne Enright: Anne Enright delivers her lecture on the corruptions of the Adam and Eve story.
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  Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett watches Love Island, in his 2017 Diary.
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  Sheila Fitzpatrick: Why is the Russian government not celebrating the anniversaries of the February and October revolutions?
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  Nicholas Penny: Nicholas Penny explains how Kenneth Clark transformed the National Gallery.
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  Michael Wood: Michael Wood looks at Fritz Lang’s use of sound in the director’s first two sound films, ‘M’ and ‘The Testament of Dr Mabuse’.
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  Iain Sinclair: Iain Sinclair walks around the city he can no longer write about.
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  Mary Beard: Mary Beard delivers her lecture on ‘Women in Power’ at the British Museum as part of the LRB’s 2017 Winter Lecture series.
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  Rosemary Hill: Rosemary Hill looks at British propaganda from the Second World War.
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  David Runciman: David Runciman looks back at 2016, with some help from Alexis de Tocqueville.
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  Ian Gilmour: In 1998, the MP Ian Gilmour wrote about Heathrow. Following the government’s approval of a third runway at the airport, his reflections bear repeating.
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  Marina Warner: Marina Warner explains why her mother’s shoes are definitely brogues.
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  Nicholas Penny: ‘Even scales are not lacking, so you can daily ascertain your own weight - a favourite hobby of the English.’ Nicholas Penny looks through the letters of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau.
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  Steven Rose: Steven Rose describes the experiments behind epigenetics.
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  Matthew Bevis: Matthew Bevis on simplicity in Stevie Smith’s poetry and drawings.
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  Rosemary Hill: Rosemary Hill on why the Dowager Countess asks a reasonable question in Downton Abbey.
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  The Making of the LRB: Follow an issue of the London Review of Books as it travels for the editors’ floor to your front door.
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  Jeremy Harding: Jeremy Harding on Seydou Keïta and the theatre of aspiration.
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  Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan on why the Satoshi Nakamoto ‘proof package’ failed.
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  James Meek: James Meek on the decline of Britain’s fishing industry.
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  Seymour M. Hersh: Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his pieces for the LRB.
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  Charles Hope: Charles Hope on Giorgione, ‘a sort of Venetian counterpart to Leonardo’.
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  Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein examines how Edward Said’s ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have long been the silent partners to climate change.
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  John Lanchester: John Lanchester on bitcoin and the nature of money.
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  Colm Tóibín: Colm Tóibín discusses his essay on the Easter 1916 rebellion.
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  Colm Tóibín: Colm Tóibín on the story of Easter 1916.
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  Julian Bell: Julian Bell on Delacroix and his heirs.
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  Frances Stonor Saunders: Frances Stonor Saunders on the crossing of borders.
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  James Meek: James Meek asks how, in a time of austerity economics, we define the robber and the robbed.
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  Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan looks back at Samuel Pepys’s infuriating journey to work, and how the modern-day Crossrail development has made Oxford Street even more perilous for pedestrians.
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  Bee Wilson: Bee Wilson discusses Alma Mahler’s life, music, relationships and anti-semitism.
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  Adam Shatz: Adam Shatz discusses his review of Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’, and reflects on the attitudes towards Muslims in France.
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  Anne Diebel: Anne Diebel discusses Henry James’s relationship with The Yellow Book in the 1890s.
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  Keith Gessen: Keith Gessen reflects on his reports on the Ukraine crisis from opposing sides of the conflict, in Odessa and Donetsk.
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  James Meek: James Meek reports from Grimsby before the 2015 general election.
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  Marina Warner: In her 2015 Winter Lecture, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed.
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  Adam Phillips: In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Adam Philips reflects on the ways we hate ourselves.
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  Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany: Franziska Augstein, Norbert Röttgen, Neal Ascherson and Christopher Clark discuss how Germany sees itself and how the world sees it. Chaired by Nicholas Spice.
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  Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose discusses Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict, Jewish identity and more with Justin Clemens, co-editor (wtih Ben Naparstek) of the Jacqueline Rose Reader.
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  Will Self: Will Self visits Prague for a walking tour in search of Franz Kafka’s genius loci.
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  Will Self: Will Self talks to Dr Anthea Bell, Dr Joyce Crick, Dr Karen Seago and Professor Amanda Hopkinson about the complexities of Franz Kafka’s German.
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  Alan Bennett: In a 2011 Primrose Hill Lecture, Alan Bennett talks about what public libraries, now under threat, have meant to him.
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  Judith Butler: Judith Butler asks Who Owns Kafka? in one of the LRB’s 2011 Winter Lectures.
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  The Author in the Age of the Internet: John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice, Colm Tóibín, Mary-Kay Wilmers and James Wood discuss the way technology is changing the stories we can tell.
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  Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose considers the Dreyfus affair and the meaning of Jewish identity.
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  Tariq Ali: Tariq Ali explains why the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable.
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  Neil MacGregor: Neil MacGregor on the purpose and politics of the British Museum.