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London Review Bookshop Podcast

London Review Bookshop

Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at

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53:45

Alexandra Harris & Laurence Scott: The Rising Down

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/05/29

Alexandra Harris has previously cast her probing critical eye over poetic and artistic responses to English weather (in Weatherland), and English art of the 1930s and 40s (in Romantic Moderns); now, in The Rising Down (Faber & Faber) she turns it on the West Sussex landscape of her childhood, revealing the layers of buried lives beneath a familiar landscape in a work which the Independent has described as ‘scholarship at its life-enhancing best’. Harris was in conversation with essayist and

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1:09:01

Adam Shatz & Kevin Okoth: The Rebel's Clinic

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/05/22

Frantz Fanon was only 36 when he died in 1961, but his books and ideas – fromWhite Skin, Black MaskstoThe Wretched of the Earth– have proved lastingly influential. Adam Shatz’sThe Rebel’s Clinicis both a biography of Fanon and an in-depth study of his writing.Shatz, the US editor of the London Review of Books and the author ofWriters & Missionaries, was joined by Kevin Okoth, author ofRed Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics.Listen to Adam discuss Fanon with Judith Butler on Close

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55:42

Rosemary Hill & Rowan Moore: Interwar

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/05/15

At the time of his death in 2017, the architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp (Private Eye’s ‘Piloti’) had nearly completed his monumental survey of British architecture between the world wars. His wife, the writer and historian Rosemary Hill, has edited the text for publication.Interwar: British Architecture 1919-1939(Profile) is a refreshing reassessment of the period which looks beyond modernism to give a broader picture of an age of turbulence and contradiction.Hill was joined in

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1:02:41

Jason Okundaye & Mendez: Revolutionary Acts

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/05/08

In Revolutionary Acts (Faber), Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and listens as they share intimate memories and reflect upon their lives. Through their conversations he traces these men's journeys and arrivals to South London through the seventies, eighties and nineties from the present day, seeking to reconcile the Black and gay narratives of Britain. Okundaye was in conversation with Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk and contributor to the London Review of Books. Hosted on

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55:50

Aniefiok Ekpoudom & Gary Younge: Where We Come From

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/05/01

Within the British music scene, recent years have borne witness to underground genres emerging from the inner cities, going on to become some of the most popular music in the nation. InWhere We Come From, journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to explore the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the

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59:21

Laleh Khalili & James Butler: The Corporeal Life of...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/04/24

Laleh Khalili’s new book The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack) draws on her own experiences to describe with care and imagination the material and physical realities of contemporary commerce at sea, detailing (in the words of Steve Edwards) ‘the labouring bodies – hands, legs, and eyes; flesh and soul; suffering and solidarity – that make the world go round. In the process, the connections and divisions of the world economy come into view.’ Khalili was in conversation with LRB contributing editor

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44:07

Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/04/17

Fleur Adcock’s sly, laconic poems have been delighting audiences since her 1964 debutThe Eye of the Hurricane. HerCollected Poemsdraws together the work of sixty years; as Fiona Sampson writes, ‘Informality and immediacy are good ways to remake a world; and Adcock’s style has not dated in the half-century since her debut.’ Adcock was joined in conversation at the Bookshop with her publisher, Neil Astley, and read from her Collected Poems.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodBuy Fleur

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1:04:55

Holly Pester & Nathalie Olah: The Lodgers

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/04/10

Holly Pester discusses her debut novel, The Lodgers, with Nathalie Olah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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51:51

Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/04/03

‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection,God Complex, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity. In this episode, she reads from the collection and was joined in conversation with the poet Lucy Mercer, whose first collection isEmblem(Prototype, 2022).Buy God Complex: lrb.me/godcomplexpodFind more events at the Bookshop:

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52:48

Lara Pawson & Jennifer Hodgson: Spent Light

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/03/27

Lara Pawson discusses her new book Spent Light with Jennifer Hodgson.Find out more about London Review Bookshop events: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:07:13

Paul Muldoon: Howdie-Skelp

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/03/20

Paul Muldoon reads from and talks about his collection Howdie-Skelp.Find out more about London Review Bookshop events: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:06

Adam Phillips & Hermione Lee: On Giving Up

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/03/13

‘Our history of giving up – that is to say, our attitude towards it, our obsession with it, our disavowal of its significance – may be a clue to something we should really call our histories and not our selves’, wrote Adam Phillips in a 2022 LRB piece, ‘On Giving Up’. Now developed and expanded into a book of the same title, Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel

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54:48

Lavinia Greenlaw & Jennifer Higgie: The Vast Extent

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/03/06

Lavinia Greenlaw’s new book The Vast Extent is a collection of ‘exploded essays’, about light and image, sight and the unseen, covering wide territories with the scientific precision and ease of access which characterises her poetry. She was joined by Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World.Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspodGet The Vast Extent: lrb.me/thevastextentpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:46

Seán Hewitt & Sarah Perry: Rapture’s Road

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/02/28

Seán Hewitt’s new poetry collection Rapture’s Road follows hard on the heels of Tongues of Fire – the winner of the 2021 Laurel Prize – and the bestselling memoir All Down Darkness Wide. Like its predecessors, the collection confronts dark and difficult subject matter in startlingly beautiful lyric language, ‘exquisitely calm’ in the words of Max Porter. Hewitt read from the collection and was in conversation with Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, whose long-awaited new novel

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1:28:27

Emily Wilson, Edith Hall, Juliet Stevenson & Tobias...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/02/21

Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, published in 2017, the first into English by a woman, was hailed as a ‘revelation’ by the New York Times and a ‘cultural landmark’ by the Guardian. With her translation of the Iliad, ten years in the making, she has given us a complete Homer for a new generation.Emily Wilson, professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is a regular contributor to the LRB and the host of one of our Close Readings series of podcasts, Among the Ancients

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55:52

Mary Jean Chan & Andrew McMillan: Bright Fear

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/02/14

Mary Jean Chan reads from their new collection, Bright Fear, and discuss it with Andrew McMillan.Chan’s debut, Fleche, won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2019. Bright Fear extends and develops that collection’s themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, while remaining deeply attuned to moments of tenderness, beauty and grace.Andrew McMillan’s most recent collection is pandemonium (Cape, 2021); a novel, Pity, is forthcoming in 2024. Together with Chan, he edited the landmark

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1:08:56

Ella Risbridger & Kate Young: The Dinner Table

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/02/07

Who would you invite to a dinner party? In The Dinner Table, a delicious collection of great food writing from past and present, talented writer-chefs Kate Young and Ella Risbridger will introduce you to Samuel Pepys on the glories of parmesan, Shirley Jackson on washing up, Katherine Mansfield on party food, Nigella Lawson on mayonnaise, Michelle Zauner on kimchi and a great deal else besides.Buy the book: lrb.me/dinnertablepodFind more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See

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1:02:53

Ed Atkins & Steven Zultanski: Sorcerer

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/01/31

Part script, part novel, part manual, Sorcerer (Prototype) is the latest unclassifiable book written in collaboration between the artist and writer Ed Atkins and the poet and critic Steven Zultanski – a gentle, contemplative work about the pleasures of conversation, being with others, and being alone. ‘Unlike many narratives, Sorcerer does not put crisis and conflict at the centre of the story’, write Atkins and Zultanski, describing their theme as ‘the intractability of reality – both its

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1:05:08

Lynne Segal & Amelia Horgan: Lean on Me

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/01/24

In Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care, Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, continues the radical exploration of how the personal and the political interact. As Baroness Helena Kennedy KC writes, ‘Both memoir and manifesto, this wonderful book charts a personal history of feminist socialism - and, with her usual humane wisdom, our author points the way to a better politics.’ She was joined in conversation by

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53:30

Tom Stevenson & Tariq Ali: Someone Else's Empire

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2024/01/17

In Someone Else's Empire Tom Stevenson, a contributing editor at the LRB, dispels the potent myth of Britain as a global player punching above its weight on the world stage, arguing instead that its foreign policy has for a long time been in thrall to the wishes and interests of the United States.He talks about his book with writer, filmmaker, publisher and activist Tariq Ali. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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