London Review Bookshop Podcast
416 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 54 ratingsListen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more.
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Utopia Now: John Burnside, Matthew Beaumont and Gareth Evans
July 14, 2021 13:26 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBJohn Burnside’s new novel, Havergey (Little Toller), is set on a remote island in the aftermath of an ecological catastrophe. From our event in 2017, Burnside reads from the novel and is in conversation with Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso). The event is chaired by Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Joshua Cohen and Colm Tóibín: The Netanyahus
July 08, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBJoshua Cohen’s The Netanyahus blends fact and fiction to give ‘An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family’. The year is 1959, and at Corbin College in New York academic Ruben Blum finds himself playing reluctant host to a visiting Israeli historian, a specialist in the Spanish Inquisition, who has unexpectedly arrived with his family in tow. The historian is the hawkish Benzion Netanyahu, and the family includes his 10-year-old son Ben...
David Runciman and Pankaj Mishra: Histories of Ideas
June 30, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBTalking Politics: History of Ideas, David Runciman’s podcast introductions to the most important thinkers and theories behind modern politics, has been one of the few saving graces of a year of lockdowns, helping to make sense of our predicament through the revelatory ideas of Hobbes and Hayek, Fanon and Fukuyama, Bentham and De Beauvoir. To mark the conclusion of the second series, David was joined by Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger and Bland Fanatics, among other books, for a conver...
Olivia Laing and Katherine Angel: Everybody
June 23, 2021 11:30 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBEverybody has a body, a source of both pleasure and pain. In her latest book Everybody (Picador) Olivia Laing uses the life and work of the radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich as an investigative tool to uncover the strange, subtle and sometimes perverted ways we think about the physical object we function within. Fundamentally, this exciting and challenging book is about how we might strive for freedom with, and not despite, our bodies. Olivia Laing was in conversation with Katherine Angel w...
Isobel Wohl and Lauren Elkin: Cold New Climate
June 16, 2021 11:30 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBDescribed by Claire Louise Bennett as ‘lithe and ambitious’ and by Toby Litt as ‘a miracle in book form’, Isobel Wohl’s debut Cold New Climate (Weatherglass) is likely to be one of the most talked about novels of 2021. Encompassing the limits and expectations of love, life and family and the devastation and elation each of those can bring, and our fears for a future that is disappearing as we speed towards it, it’s a book that’s vibrantly conscious of the modern world, and slyly conscious of...
Jacqueline Rose and Jude Kelly: On Violence and On Violence Against Women
June 09, 2021 11:05 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBThroughout her career and across her many books Jacqueline Rose has been teasing out the political implications of violence, and in particular the way it concerns and interacts with the social constructions of gender. In her latest passionate, polemical work On Violence and On Violence Against Women (Faber) she confronts the issue head on, taking in trans rights, the sexual harassment of migrant women, the trial of Oscar Pistorius and the writings of Hisham Matar and Han Kang. Rose is in co...
Helen Mort and Dan Richards: No Map Could Show Them
June 03, 2021 12:17 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBHelen Mort and Dan Richards were at the shop to talk about poetry and mountaineering. Mort read from her latest collection from Chatto and Windus, No Map Could Show Them (a Poetry Book Society recommendation), which recounts in Mort’s inimitable style the exploits of pathbreaking female mountaineers. Afterwards she was in conversation with Dan Richards, whose book Climbing Days (Faber) explores the writing and climbing exploits of his great-great aunt and uncle, Dorothy Pilley and I.A. Richa...
Carrie Brownstein and Lavinia Greenlaw: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
May 26, 2021 11:30 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBCarrie Brownstein was at the shop to discuss her book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, with Lavinia Greenlaw. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Katherine Angel & Olivia Laing: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
May 19, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (Verso)—spanning science and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on #MeToo, consent and feminism—Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about women’s desire. Why, she asks, should they be expected to know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously, when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and personhood? Angel is in conversation with Olivia Laing, author of Funny Weather (Picador). Buy the books here: ht...
Chris Power and Alex Clark: A Lonely Man
May 12, 2021 11:30 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBChris Power’s first novel A Lonely Man (Faber) is a powerful, menacing exploration of the nature of truth, fabrication and identity. ‘If you're a fan of existential crises’ writes Jon McGregor, ‘family dramas, Putin-era paranoias, and Bolaño-style multiplicities, and want to see them woven into one taut novel, you're in the right place.’ Chris Power was in conversation about A Lonely Man with the critic Alex Clark. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Rebecca Solnit and Mary Beard: ‘Recollections of My Nonexistence’
May 05, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MBBeginning in San Francisco in 1981, the era of punk and nascent gay pride, Rebecca Solnit’s latest book Recollections of My Non-Existence (Granta) is a powerful memoir of growing both as a woman and an artist, drawing on the powers of literature, activism and solidarity in the face of an apparently unbreachable patriarchy. The struggle to find a voice and to find a way to make that voice heard are brilliantly captured and dissected by one of feminism’s, and indeed the world’s, foremost think...
Rachel Kushner and Hal Foster: The Hard Crowd
April 28, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBAlready well-known for her novels – Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers, The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner has over the past two decades been writing essays, reviews and reportage as insightful and surprising as her fiction. In The Hard Crowd (Jonathan Cape) she has selected 19 pieces, covering diverse topics: art, literature, music, politics with essays on Marguerite Duras, Jeff Koons, wildcat strikes, a visit to a Palestinian refugee Camp and the music scene of her hometown San Francisco. She...
Joshua Cohen and Jon Day: Moving Kings
April 21, 2021 11:30 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBJoshua Cohen, one of Granta magazines ‘Best Young American Writers’ for 2017, was at the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel Moving Kings, published by Fitzcarraldo. Described by James Wood in the New Yorker as ‘A Jewish Sopranos… burly with particularities and vibrant with voice… utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy’, Moving Kings interweaves the housing crisis in contemporary New York with the history of conflict in the Middle East. Joshua Cohen was in conversation...
John Boughton and Owen Hatherley: Municipal Dreams
April 14, 2021 15:40 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBFrom this 2018 event: In Municipal Dreams (Verso), John Boughton charts the often surprising story of council housing in Britain, from the slum clearances of the Victorian age through to the Grenfell Tower disaster. It’s a history packed with incident – with utopians, visionaries and charlatans, with visionary planners and corrupt officials – and Boughton combines it with an architectural tour of some of the best remaining examples, as well as some of the more ordinary places that millions o...
Comic Timing: Holly Pester, Vahni Capildeo and Rachael Allen
April 07, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBHolly Pester's debut collection, Comic Timing (Granta), is disorienting, radical and extremely funny; Pester has a background in sound art and performance, having worked with the Womens' Library, the BBC and the Wellcome Collection, and is an unmissable reader of her own work. She read from Comic Timing and was in conversation with Vahni Capildeo, whose most recent collection is Skin Can Hold (Carcanet, 2019), and Rachael Allen, poetry editor at Granta and author of Kingdomland (Faber, 2019)...
Paul Spooner and Rosemary Hill: Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
April 01, 2021 10:30 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBHaving an engineer as a father and an art school education, Paul Spooner became, predictably, a school-teacher, then a lorry driver. A chance meeting with mechanical model-maker Peter Markey in Cornwall led him to discover his true métier – the almost extinct profession of automatist, or maker of automata. Since then he has been relentlessly making mechanical playthings, mostly of wood, some of them not, mostly small, some of them not, all of them intricately engineered, eccentrically beauti...
Patricia Lockwood and John Lanchester: No One Is Talking About This
March 24, 2021 12:30 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBPatricia Lockwood was in conversation about her new book, No One Is Talking About This (and a lot else besides) with fellow LRB contributing editor, John Lanchester. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On Brigid Brophy: Bidisha, Terry Castle and Eley Williams
March 17, 2021 12:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MBBrigid Brophy (1929-95) was a fearlessly original novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner, championing gay marriage, pacifism, vegetarianism and prison reform. Her many acclaimed novels include Hackenfeller’s Ape, The King of a Rainy Country, Flesh, The Finishing Touch, In Transit, and The Snow Ball – which Faber reissued at the end of last year – as well as critical studies of Mozart, Aubrey Beardsley and Ronald Firbank, among other subjects. She also wrote about Mozart for the ...
Lauren Oyler and Olivia Sudjic: Fake Accounts
March 10, 2021 12:30 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBLauren Oyler was talking abou her first novel, Fake Accounts, with the writer Olivia Sudjic, who has described it as 'Savage and shrewd, destined to go viral. If the world does end soon I'll be glad that I read it'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
André Aciman and Brian Dillon: Homo Irrealis
March 02, 2021 11:47 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBAndré Aciman talked to Brian Dillon about his latest book, Homo Irrealis (Faber and Faber), a collection of essays on subjects as diverse as Freud, W.G.Sebald, the films of Eric Rohmer and the cityscapes of Alexandria and St Petersburg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
‘The Lark Ascending’: Richard King and Luke Turner
February 24, 2021 10:30 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBIn The Lark Ascending (Faber) Richard King, author of Original Rockers and How Soon is Now?, explores how Britain's history and identity have been shaped by the mysterious relationship between music and nature. From the far west of Wales to the Thames Estuary and the Suffolk shoreline, taking in Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Bryars, Greenham Common and the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, The Lark Ascending listens to the land and the music that emerged from it, to c...
Simon Winder and Adam Phillips: ‘Lotharingia’
February 17, 2021 10:30 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBFollowing on from his bestselling and hugely entertaining Germania and Danubia, Simon Winder continues his idiosyncratic journey through Europe’s past with Lotharingia (Picador). Now almost forgotten, Lotharingia arose from the ashes of the Carolingian Empire and stretched from the North Sea coasts of what is now the Netherlands all the way to the Alps, encompassing myriad languages and nationalities. Despite its disappearance and ensuing obscurity Lotharingia, Winder shows, has exercised a ...
Hal Foster and Mark Godfrey: On Richard Serra
February 10, 2021 10:31 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBIn his book Conversations About Sculpture (Yale) art historian Hal Foster recapitulates the discussions he has had, over a period of two decades, with the legendary minimalist sculptor Richard Serra. Professor Foster, a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, was in discussion about his book, and about Serra's extraordinary work, with Tate Modern curator Mark Godfrey. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Brecht’s War Primer: Oliver Chanarin, Tom Kuhn & Esther Leslie
February 03, 2021 15:30 - 1 hour - 109 MBFrom this 2017 event: Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, theatre director and refugee, was a passionate critic of fascism and war. During World War Two, already many years into his exile from Nazi Germany, Brecht started creating what he called ‘photo-epigrams’ to create a singular visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism. As his family fled from the Nazis, 'changing countries more often than our shoes,' Brecht took photographs from newspapers and popular magazines and added s...
Dana Spiotta and Alex Clark: Innocents and Others
January 27, 2021 11:40 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBDana Spiotta was reading from her novel Innocents and Others, and talking about her work with with journalist and critic Alex Clark. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Anne Michaels and Bidisha: The Necessary Word
January 20, 2021 13:30 - 51 minutes - 40.9 MBFrom this 2017 event, Canadian poet and novelist Anne MIchaels, author of the multi-award winning fiction Fugitive Pieces, 'the most important book I have read for forty years' (John Berger), presents two new titles. Infinite Gradation (House Sparrow Press), her first volume of non-fiction, is an astonishing meditation on the moral, emotional and philosophical implications of language and the creative act. All We Saw (Bloomsbury), Anne's latest collection of poetry, continues her mesmerising...
Richard Sennett and Anna Minton: ‘Building and Dwelling’
January 13, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBRich with arguments that speak directly to our moment - a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before - Building and Dwelling (Allen Lane) draws on Richard Sennett's deep learning and intimate engagement with city life to form a bold and original vision for the future of cities. Sennett was in conversation with Anna Minton, author of Big Capital (Penguin). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In the Dark Room: Brian Dillon and Sophie Ratcliffe
January 06, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBIn this event from 2018, Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine and author of several books of essays, fiction, history and art criticism, talked about his first book, In the Dark Room, published by Penguin in 2005 and now available again in a handsome new edition from Fitzcarraldo, with Sophie Ratcliffe, Associate Professor in English, University of Oxford and author of On Sympathy (Oxford, 2008). Exploring the intersections of grief and memory, in his own personal history and beyond, ...
Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster: Estates
December 21, 2020 14:12 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBLynsey Hanley's Estates, first published by Granta in 2008, has become over the past decade one of the key texts to analyse Britain's urban landscape in the post-War period. To mark a new edition of her seminal work, Hanley, a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New Statesman, was in conversation with fellow journalist Dawn Foster, who has written widely on housing and social issues. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Essayism: Brian Dillon and Max Porter
December 16, 2020 12:30 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBIn this event from June 2017, Brian Dillon talks to Max Porter about his latest book, Essayism (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Dillon has been fascinated by the essay form throughout his reading and writing life, and Essayism is at once a paean to this venerable and still vibrant genre, and a dazzling contemporary example of it. Porter is the author of the prize-winning Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
December 09, 2020 08:35 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBRussian twentieth-century poetry is one of the pinnacles of European literature and we still know little about it. This event includes readings from Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Maria Petrovykh, Varlam Shalamov (still better known for his prose) and the emigre poet Georgy Ivanov, one of the very greatest of all Russian lyric poets. Stephen Capus, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and James Womack read some of their translations included in the new Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. See acast.com/priv...
Scottish Spirits: Robin Robertson, Jen Hadfield and Alasdair Roberts
December 02, 2020 12:45 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBAs the nights close in, what could be better than to gather around the (virtual) hearth and consider multi-award winning poet Robin Robertson's shadow-wracked new collection, Grimoire (Picador). A grimoire is a manual for invoking spirits, and in Robertson's intense Celtic take, it tells stories of ordinary people caught up, suddenly, in the extraordinary: tales of violence, madness and retribution, of second sight, witches, ghosts, selkies, changelings and doubles, all bound within a large...
Daisy Lafarge and Rachael Allen: Life Without Air
November 25, 2020 10:30 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBDaisy Lafarge’s Life Without Air (Granta), following on the tails of her pamphlets understudies for air and capriccio, is one of the mostly hotly-awaited debut collections of 2020. She read from the collection, and was in conversation about it with Rachael Allen, author of Kingdomland (Faber) and Lafarge’s editor at Granta. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Owen Hatherley and Ash Sarkar: Red Metropolis
November 18, 2020 12:10 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBLondon, the Capital of world capitalism, a centre of global finance and a place of immense wealth and privilege, has an often unacknowledged red underbelly, stretching from Herbert Morrison in the 1930s to Sadiq Khan in the 2020s. In Red Metropolis (Repeater), Tribune culture editor and historian Owen Hatherley looks back at that tradition, and argues that a socialist, democratic, pluralist city could become a beacon of hope for the whole country and beyond. Hatherley is in conversation with...
‘This Mournable Body’: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Sara Collins
November 11, 2020 10:00 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBZimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga presented her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted This Mournable Body (Faber). The third in a trilogy which began with Nervous Conditions and continued with The Book of Not, This Mournable Body tells the ongoing story of Tambudzai and her struggles with patriarchy and the legacy of colonialism as she tries to make her way, on her own terms, in 1990s Harare. Dangarembga has for many years been as involved in politics as in lite...
Life With a Capital L: Geoff Dyer and Frances Wilson on D.H. Lawrence
November 04, 2020 12:30 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBIn our event from 16 July 2019, Geoff Dyer talks to Frances Wilson about D.H. Lawrence. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, he has edited a selection of Lawrence's essays for Penguin. Subjects covered in this freewheeling volume include art, morality, obscenity, songbirds, Italy, Thomas Hardy, the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mounta...
Andrew Motion and Alan Hollinghurst: Essex Clay
October 28, 2020 10:42 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBOn publication of Andrew Motion's new book of poetry, Essex Clay, he joined Alan Hollinghurst in conversation at St George's Bloomsbury. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Brian Dillon and Olivia Laing: ‘Suppose a Sentence’
October 21, 2020 09:00 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MBWriter and critic Brian Dillon’s latest book Suppose a Sentence (Fitzcarraldo) is a series of essays, each of them taking as its pretext a single sentence drawn from literature. What emerges is a dazzling experiment in criticism, a personal and at times polemical investigation of style, meaning and sense. Dillon was in conversation about his work with Olivia Laing, author of Funny Weather and Crudo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
John Lanchester and Sam Kinchin-Smith: Reality and Other Stories
October 14, 2020 11:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MBNovelist, memoirist, essayist and contributing editor to the LRB John Lanchester sets out to chill you to the virtual bone with his first ever collection of short fiction Reality and Other Stories (Faber). As if modern life weren’t unsettling enough, Lanchester makes it even more so with tales of haunted mobile phones, selfie sticks with demonic powers and other stories of technology gone horribly, horribly wrong in this retread of M.R. James for the Zoom generation. As we prepare for what ...
European Union Prize for Literature: Sunjeev Sahota, Evie Wyld and Catherine Taylor
October 07, 2020 09:59 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBThe European Union Prize for Literature aims to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature and to promote the circulation of literature beyond national and linguistic borders. To discuss the prize, the state of European literature and Britain's place in the post-Brexit international literary community, we welcomed two past winners: Sunjeev Sahota, who won in 2017 for his Man Booker shortlisted novel The Year of Runaways; and 2014 winner Evie Wy...
Last Stories: Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee, Di Speirs & Salley Vickers on William Trevor
September 30, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBIn celebration of the life, work and legacy of William Trevor, one of the giants of modern Irish fiction, authors Salley Vickers, Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee and BBC Radio 4 Books Editor Di Speirs read from and talked about their favourites of his novels and short fiction, to mark the publication of Last Stories (Viking). Trevor, who died in 2016, won the Whitbread prize three times, was five times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and in 2014 was made Saoi by Aosdána, Ireland’s most prest...
Carcanet New Poetries VII
September 23, 2020 15:20 - 55 minutes - 76.9 MBWe were joined by Toby Litt, Helen Charman, Lisa Kelly and Mary Jean Chan, four of the poets featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII. From the first anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. The New Poetries anthologies have never sought to identify a school, much less a generation: the poets included employ a wide range of styles, forms and approac...
Andrew O’Hagan and Edmund Gordon: Mayflies
September 16, 2020 10:07 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBThree-times Booker-nominated author and LRB editor-at-large Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel centres on the powerful friendship between James and Tully, fuelled by teenage rebellion and the unforgettable soundtrack of late 80s British music. Stretching over three decades, Mayflies is a captivating study of adolescence becoming adulthood, with all the shades of light and darkness that has made O’Hagan one of the most respected writers of his generation. O’Hagan was in conversation with Edmund G...
Akwaeke Emezi and Louisa Joyner: The Death of Vivek Oji
September 09, 2020 10:39 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBIgbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book was Pet, a novel for young adults that raised difficult and pertinent questions about cultures of denial, and was described as ‘beautiful and genre-expanding’ in the New York Times. To mark the publication of their second novel for adults The Death of Vivek Oji, a heart-wrenching tale of one fam...
Kirsty Gunn and Max Porter: Caroline’s Bikini
September 02, 2020 11:34 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBNovelist and essayist Kirsty Gunn’s latest novel Caroline’s Bikini is a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature – that of unrequited love. In a series of conversations in West London bars, Gunn unravels the passion of financier Evan Gordonstone for the glamorous Caroline Beresford, an unravelling that brings Gordonstone to the brink of destruction. Kirsty Gunn is the author of six works of fiction and several essay collections, and currently teaches creative wr...
Chantal Mouffe and John Trickett: For a Left Populism
August 26, 2020 10:27 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBLeading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism today: it is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action — the people. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Maureen N. McLane and Sarah Howe
August 19, 2020 11:04 - 56 minutes - 77.1 MBAcross five collections, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has won admirers for its distinctive mix of the humourous and the cerebral, a voice the London Review of Books described as ‘Somewhere between teenage fangirl and Wordsworth professor.’ The best of those five collections is now gathered in her first selected, What I'm Looking For (Penguin). McLane was at the shop to read from and discuss her work with poet and critic Sarah Howe, whose collection Loop of Jade won the 2015 T.S. Eliot prize. ...
Javier Cercas and Gaby Wood: ‘Lord of All the Dead’
August 12, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 84.9 MB‘This past is a dimension of the present, without which the present is mutilated.’ In Lord of all the Dead, Javier Cercas plunges back into his family history, revisiting Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to discover the truth about his ancestor Manuel Mena, who died fighting on the Francoist side at the Battle of the Ebro. Who are we to judge the dead? How can we reconcile national and family history, the political and the domestic? Cercas was in conversation with Ga...
To Leave and to Be Left Behind: Five Dials launch with Sophie Mackintosh, Rachael Allen, Bridget Minamore and Yara Rodrigues Fowler
August 05, 2020 12:02 - 1 hour - 116 MBFive Dials 57, ‘To Leave and to Be Left Behind’, explores the imaginative space of the journey – where it can take us and how it can change us. Guest-edited by Sophie Mackintosh, it brings together a range of playful, intimate and risk-taking voices from across contemporary fiction and poetry. To celebrate the launch of this special issue, Sophie was joined in conversation by three of the magazine’s contributors – Rachael Allen, Bridget Minamore and Yara Rodrigues Fowler. See acast.com/...
Richard McGuire and Dave McKean: Home
July 29, 2020 10:56 - 1 hour - 100 MBIn conversation with Dave McKean, Richard McGuire talks about his graphic novel, Here, a book-length expansion of his groundbreaking 1989 sequence of the same name, See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.