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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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47:54

Lorna Goodison and Linton Kwesi Johnson

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/07/01

Writing on Lorna Goodison’s poetry, Derek Walcott asks ‘What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? Joy.’ Goodison has served as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica and published twelve volumes of poetry; herCollected Poemscame out from Carcanet in 2017. In 2019, she won the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of the only three poets to be published as a Penguin Modern Classic while still alive; his collections includeInglan is a

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46:45

Hot Milk: Deborah Levy and Lauren Elkin

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/06/25

There is a sort of chase for coherence in the current commercial market for fiction ... a sort of terror of there being any kind of mystery in a book, or even a character being confused.Deborah Levy, described by Lauren Elkin in theTLSas ' one of the most exciting voices in contemporary British fiction' was at the Bookshop to talk about her latest novelHot Milk(Hamish Hamilton), which explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood.“A bright broth of myth, psychology, Freudian symbolism and

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48:36

Citizens of Everywhere: Shami Chakrabarti, Tom...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/06/17

Are we English, British, European, citizens of the planet Earth or none of the above? The ‘Citizens of Everywhere’ project invites writers, artists and journalists to respond to the seismic shifts in European and American politics, and their implications for the future, in ways that are creative, surprising, and, most importantly of all, useful. BaronessShami Chakrabarti, Labour peer and former director of Liberty, novelistTom McCarthyand campaignerEloise Toddwere at the shop to debate the future of

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55:43

Lost Voices: Fred D'Aguiar, David Olusoga, Catherine...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/06/10

The fleeting appearance of black faces in Tudor paintings marks the silent presence of a community's untold story. Who were the black men and women who lived, loved, and died in Renaissance Britain? How did they arrive? And how can we recover their voices when all we have is a glimpse in a portrait here, or church and court record there? At this event the writer Fred D'Aguiar and historians David Olusoga and Catherine Fletcher joined Nandini Das, director of TIDE, to explore the challenge of using

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59:07

Nancy Fraser and Ann Pettifor: 'Capitalism: A...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/06/03

InCapitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory(Polity) Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi engage in a critical dialogue that seeks to expand our understanding of capitalism, revealing it to be not merely a system of economic relations, but rather a form of institutionalised social order, and one that continually reinvents itself through crisis. Nancy Fraser, Professor of Political & Social Science at the New School for Social Research, was in conversation about capitalism and its discontents with

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49:19

Danny Dorling, Richard Wilkinson and Rupa Huq: ‘A...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/05/27

Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and, according to Simon Jenkins in theGuardian, 'the geographer royal by appointment to the left', returned to the Bookshop to talk about his new bookA Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier(London Publishing Partnership). Dorling's book looks at the evidence for a successful politics that would promote happiness and health and suggests policies that take account of this evidence. Dorling was in conversation with Rupa

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45:27

Laleh Khalili and Rafeef Ziadah: ‘Sinews of War and...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/05/20

Laleh Khalili and Rafeef Ziadah on shipping and capitalism in the Arabian peninsula.You can order the book discussed in this episode here: lrb.me/order Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:10:55

Tim Dee, Marina Warner and Ken Worpole: Ground Work

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/05/13

Radio producer and naturalist Tim Dee has curated in Ground Work (Cape) an essential collection of autobiographical essays from distinguished writers, all of which explore, in diverse ways, the complex and increasingly vexed relationship between the human and natural. Tim Dee was in conversation with two of the book's contributors, Marina Warner and Ken Worpole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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23:43

Nikita Lalwani and Mary Mount: ‘You People’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/05/06

Nikita Lalwani’s latest novelYou People(Viking) centres on a London pizzeria where the chefs are Sri Lankan and many of the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. Through a diverse set of characters Lalwani draws a vivid portrait of contemporary British life as it really is lived. Lalwani was in conversation with her editor Mary Mount.‘Enthralling as a thriller, yet also a beautiful human drama, and a serious enquiry into the possibility of goodness.’ - Tessa Hadley Hosted on Acast. See

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37:07

Adam Mars-Jones and Richard Scott: ‘Box Hill’

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/04/29

Adam Mars-Jones talks about his newly-published novel, ‘Box Hill’ with Richard Scott. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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40:14

Danny Dorling and Zoe Williams: Slowdown

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/04/22

Although our events programme is on hold at the moment, we’re delighted that Danny Dorling and Zoe Williams could get together virtually to record this podcast in lieu of the planned event.In his intriguing and counterintuitive new bookSlowdown(Yale), Danny Dorling argues that, contrary to what most of us believe, human life is actually slowing down, in diverse areas from birth rate to GDP to technological innovation. And, what’s more, in an arresting graphic style combining text and data with

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51:50

Mick Herron and Miranda Carter: Joe Country

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/04/15

Mick Herron’s hero/anti-hero Jackson Lamb is everything Le Carré’s Smiley isn’t, as well as quite a lot of what he is. Drunk, obese, bone-idle and ridiculously talented in the dark arts of spycraft, he is also ridiculously loyal to the inhabitants of Slough House, a group of misfits, addicts and screw-ups who have been exiled from the security services for a range of misdemeanours both real and concocted. His five Slough House novels so far are brutal, ruthless, intricately plotted and, it’s

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50:52

Plastic Emotions: Shiromi Pinto, Owen Hatherley and...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/04/08

‘We architects must be idealists’, wrote Minnette de Silva, Sri Lanka’s first female architect. Shiromi Pinto’s second novel,Plastic Emotions(Influx Press) is based on de Silva’s life, charting her affair with Le Corbusier and her attempt to rebuild Sri Lanka in the aftermath of independence.Pinto was in conversation with Owen Hatherley, whose most recent book isThe Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, and Olivia Sudjic, the author ofExposure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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57:52

Sam Contis and Joanna Biggs: Dorothea Lange’s Day...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/04/01

Sam Contis discusses ‘Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper’, the way women photographers are remembered and forgotten and how one artist encounters another in the world and in the archive, with Joanna Biggs, assistant editor at the LRB. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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57:03

Lars Iyer and Jon Day: Nietzsche and the Burbs

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/03/25

Lars Iyer, author of theSpurioustrilogy andWittgenstein Jr.revisits philosophy in his latest novelNietzsche and the Burbs(Melville House). Set in a modern secondary school, Iyer’s novel follows a group of students through their last few weeks of school, centring on an enigmatic and charismatic recent transferee from private education, nicknamed by his fellow pupils ‘Nietzsche’ both for his brilliance and intimations of oncoming madness. Iyer is currently Reader in Creative Writing at Newcastle

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57:41

Jean Sprackland and Chris McCabe: These Silent Mansions

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/03/18

In her previous bookStrandspoet and essayist Jean Sprackland brought lyrically to life the hidden histories of objects found on her local beaches. Now inThese Silent Mansions(Jonathan Cape) she brings together a magpie-like collector’s instinct, a historian’s restless curiosity and a poet’s keen sensibility to investigate what graveyards can tell us about both the dead and the living. Revisiting cemeteries in the towns and cities she has over the years called home, she unearths the fascinating,

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48:46

Anne Enright and Andrew O’Hagan: Actress

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/03/11

Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress (Cape) tells the story of the relationship between Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell and her daughter Norah, as told by Norah herself. Early stardom in Hollywood, triumphs and tragedies on the stages of Dublin and London, and a career unravelling into infamy and eventual insanity are vividly evoked in a brilliant novel about mothers, daughters, secrets and the corrosiveness of fame.Anne Enright, author of six previous novels including Booker-winning The

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1:06:14

Leïla Slimani & Amia Srinivasan: Sex and Lies

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/03/04

Leïla Slimani was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby. Her latest book Sex and Lies (Faber) departs from fiction to explore the lives of and give a voice to the young women of Morocco, struggling to survive and thrive in a deeply conservative, patriarchal culture.Slimani was in conversation about her work with Professor Amia Srinivasan, tutorial fellow in Philosophy at Oxford and contributing editor at the LRB, where she has published articles on,

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57:43

Julia Ebner and Daniel Trilling: Going Dark: The...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/02/26

By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare time - late nights, holidays, weekends - adopting five different identities, and joining a dozen extremist groups from across the ideological spectrum including White Supremacists, ISIS, German Neo-Nazis, ‘Trad

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53:26

Beethoven: The Poets’ Take: Anthony Anaxagorou,...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2020/02/19

Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, studied music in Leipzig with Beethoven’s friend and contemporary. Her latest collection Beethoven Variations (Chatto) is simultaneously a biography in verse of the great composer and a passionate and highly personal account of how one creative genius can feed, and feed on, another.She was joined in an evening of readings and conversation about Beethoven,

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