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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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65:01

Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s Purgatorio

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/07/23

In his 2014 Dante’s Inferno poet and provocateur Philip Terry moved the action to Essex University. His Purgatorio (Carcanet) transports us to nearby Mersea Island, where Ted Berrigan leads our author up an artificial mountain to meet with artists Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst, as well as Christopher Marlowe, Boris Johnson, Lady Diana, Jean Paul Getty, Hilary Clinton, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, Martin McGuinness, Ciaran Carson and Anoushka Shankar.Philip Terry was joined in

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61:10

Fitzcarraldo at 10: Kate Briggs, Brian Dillon & Helen...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/07/16

It’s hard to believe that Fitzcarraldo Editions has only existed for ten years; during that short time, they have published a remarkable selection of books (gathering four Nobel Prizes between them), and their iconic blue and white covers have become a mainstay of the bookshop. To celebrate their first decade, Fitzcarraldo are publishing some of their best-loved titles in hardback, limited edition form.Brian Dillon and Kate Briggs will be at the shop to discuss their books in this series:

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59:10

Tariq Ali & Oliver Eagleton: You Can’t Please All

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/07/09

In You Can’t Please All (Verso), a sort of sequel to his seminal 1987 memoir Street-fighting Years, Tariq Ali continues the story of a life lived flamboyantly and magnificently on the Left. Pen portraits of friends and comrades such as Edward Said, Derek Jarman, Richard Ingrams, Benazir Bhutto, Mary-Kay Wilmers, E.P. Thompson, Perry Anderson and Robin Blackburn are combined with reflections on his work as a novelist, playwright and film-maker, and as an activist in the War on the War on Terror. Ali

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60:11

Simon Critchley & James Butler: On Mysticism

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/07/02

From Jesus Christ to Krautrock via Julian of Norwich and T.S. Eliot, Simon Critchley’s On Mysticism (Profile) brilliantly displays the author’s playful, eclectic erudition in an evocation of the phenomenon he defines, after Evelyn Underhill, as ‘experience in its most intense form.’Critchley was in conversation about mysticism East and West with the LRB’s James Butler. Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod

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52:57

Patrick Cockburn & Duncan Campbell on Claud Cockburn

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/06/25

Campaigning journalist Claud Cockburn – defiantly anti-establishment and proudly Communist – had as his watchword ‘believe nothing until it is officially denied’, a saying borrowed by his son Patrick, himself a legendary foreign correspondent, for his biography of his maverick father. Described by schoolfriend Graham Greene as the greatest journalist of the twentieth century, Cockburn was born at the heart of the establishment it became his life’s work to satirise, lampoon and undermine, with

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72:01

Pankaj Mishra & Gareth Evans: The World After Gaza

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/06/18

Building on his seminal lecture ‘The Shoah After Gaza’ (LRB 21 March 2024) and his earlier books From the Ruins of Empire and The Age of Anger, novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra’s latest work The World After Gaza (Fern Press) seeks to place the current crisis in Gaza and Palestine within the broader context of the troubled and tragic history of colonialism and anticolonialism. ‘A brilliant book,’ writes William Dalrymple, ‘as thoughtful, scholarly and subtle as it is brave and original. The World

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58:21

David Russell & Adam Phillips: On Marion Milner &...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/06/11

Marion Milner, across her long career as psychoanalyst, essayist and artist, thought deeply about creativity in all its forms, exploring fields as diverse as anthropology, folklore, education, literature, art, philosophy, mysticism, and psychology. In Marion Milner: On Creativity, David Russell, Professor of English at the University of California, uses these ideas as a starting-point for an exploration of Milner’s thought and its continuing relevance today. Russell was in conversation with

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1:16:28

Rebecca Solnit & Carole Cadwalladr: No Straight Road...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/06/04

Rebecca Solnit’s latest essay collection explores subjects as diverse as the climate crisis, toxic masculinity and the rise of the far right with her usual flair and capacity for radical hope: Merlin Sheldrake has describedNo Straight Road Takes You Thereas ‘a book of fierce and poetic thinking - and a guide for navigating a rapidly changing, non-linear, living world’.Solnit was joined in conversation by investigative journalist and campaigner Carole Cadwalladr.Find more events at the Bookshop:

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1:16:15

Margaret Atwood and Sarah Howe: Paper Boat

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/05/28

Before she became a well-known novelist, Margaret Atwood was an award-winning poet. She has been publishing poetry for more than 60 years, from the self-published, hand-setDouble Persephonein 1961 to its follow upThe Circle Gamewhich won the Governor General’s Award, to her latest, critically-acclaimed collectionDearlyin 2020.Paper Boat(Chatto & Windus) draws on that impressive body of work, and expands on it with poems previously uncollected, revealing an artist who has somehow always managed

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55:57

Solvej Balle & Chris Power: On the Calculation of Volume

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/05/21

‘Every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. She no longer expects to wake up to the 19th of November, and she no longer remembers the 17th of November as if it were yesterday.’Solvej Balle’s septologyOn the Calculation of Volume(Faber), thirty years in the making, was published in Danish by the author’s own press to huge and universal acclaim: ‘Absolutely, absolutely incredible’ (Karl Ove Knausgaard); ‘Unforgettable’ (Hernan Díaz); ‘A total explosion’ (Nicole Krauss). Now Faber has brought

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54:16

Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Gliff

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/05/14

Gliff, the latest novel from Ali Smith, forms the first part of a duology; its title, the Scots word for a glimpse or shock, will be echoed but not replicated in next year’sGlyph. In a dystopian, Kafkaesque fictional lanscape, Smith explores how we make meaning and are made by it, and what it would actually mean for the next generation to sort out our increasingly toxic world.Smith read from the novel and was in conversation with artist and filmmaker Sarah Wood.Find more events at the Bookshop:

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58:15

Josh Cohen & Will Davies: All the Rage

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/05/07

Josh Cohen’s new book, All the Rage (Granta), explores anger, in all its permutations - social media arguments, political divides, road rage, passive aggression – in the words of Deborah Levy, ‘brilliantly investigating what it is when we are enraged’. What should we make of our anger; to what use can we put it?Cohen’s previous books include Not Working and The Private Life. He was in conversation with the sociologist and political economist William Davies, whose most recent book is Nervous States:

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55:31

Sarah Clegg & Ronald Hutton: The Dead of Winter

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/04/30

InThe Dead of Winter, Sarah Clegg – author of the HWA Crown Award-shortlistedWoman’s Lore- looks behind the tinsel and the turkey to explore the darker traditions of the Christmas season. At wassails, hoodenings and winter gatherings, attended by ghastly, grinning horses, snatching monsters and mysterious visitors, we discover how these customs and rituals originated and how they changed through the centuries, and ask ourselves: if we can't keep the darkness entirely at bay, might it be fun to let a

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1:12:32

Eileen Myles & Amelia Abraham: a “Working Life”

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/04/23

Eileen Myles reads from their first collection of poetry since 2018’sEvolution. The poems ina “Working Life”evoke the joy and unease in the quotidian, moving ‘with call and response between perception and thought’, as Camille Roy writes inBrooklyn Railmagazine.Myles is in conversation with journalist and activist Amelia Abraham, whoseQueer Intentionswas published by Picador in 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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54:49

Isabelle Baafi & Lavinia Greenlaw: Chaotic Good

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/04/16

Isabelle Baafi, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for her pamphletRipe, constructs her debut collectionChaotic Good(Faber) around the story of an escape from a toxic marriage. ‘Chaotic Goodis a debut of amazing endurance,’ writes poet Will Harris. ‘Its formal pressures create a kind of kaleidoscopic intensity that – with each turn of the chamber – brings newly beautiful and painful shapes into focus.’Isabelle Baafi read from her work in the company of Lavinia Greenlaw, whose most recent book is

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1:02:29

Zarina Muhammad & Gabrielle de la Puente with Olivia...

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/04/09

InPoor Artists(Particular Books) Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente (AKA The White Pube), explore the bizarre world of contemporary art through their protagonist Quest Talukdar. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Blending storytelling with dialogue from anonymised interviews with artists and art workers – including a Turner Prize winner or two, a few

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56:21

Karl Ove Knausgaard & Helen Charman: The Third Realm

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/04/02

The Third Realmis the next instalment of the series Karl Ove Knausgaard began withThe Morning Starand continued inThe Wolves of Eternity; like its two precursors, it is a breathtaking exploration of ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change, ‘re-enchanting the cosmos with those beguiling secrets science had stolen from it’ (in the words ofThe Guardian).Knausgaard read fromThe Third Realmand was joined in conversation about its mysteries and complexities by Helen Charman, author ofMother

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1:04:49

Helen Castor & Mary Wellesley: The Eagle & the Hart

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/03/26

‘If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one is’, writes Andrew O’Hagan of Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart (Allen Lane). ‘The dumbfounding, delusional, narcissistic King Richard; the white-knuckle ride of Henry IV, dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy. I feel these men could have been ripped from today’s headlines.’ Castor, whose 2010 book She-Wolves was adapted for television by the BBC, discussed Richard and Henry with Mary Wellesley, author of Hidden

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49:54

Legacy Russell & Rene Matić: Black Meme

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/03/19

InBlack Meme(Verso) Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreakingGlitch Feminism, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media. Through imagery, memory, and technology,Black Memeshows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding of the modern world.Russell was joined in conversation with artist and writer Rene Matić.Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod Hosted

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1:15:00

Thurston Moore & Jack Underwood: Sonic Life

London Review Bookshop Podcast ·

2025/03/12

In his memoirSonic Life(Faber), Thurston Moore recounts a life that has been defined by music. Following a childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany in the early 1960s, his infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave led him to move to New York City, where he immersed himself in the underground music and art scenes. In 1981 he co-founded the band Sonic Youth, who changed the sound of modern rock music in a thirty-year career of constant experimentation. Throughout the book we encounter a

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