Edna Bonhomme & Lola Olufemi: Tending to Our Wounds
Haitian-American scholar Edna Bonhomme, now based in Berlin, is well placed to unpick what it means to be Black at home and abroad. In Tendi...
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20 of 730 episodesSex, Poetry and the Turning World: Sarah Howe, Sandeep Parmar and guests
Sex in novels is commonplace, but how do poets write about sex--and is it any good? Join Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar for a live recording...
Holly Pester & Luke Roberts: Cafés
Holly Pester’s Cafés (Fitzcarraldo) continues the trajectory which, since her debut Comic Timing, has made her one of the most exciting poet...
Sara Baume & Emily LaBarge: Opening Night
Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it...
Sophie Lewis & Keiran Goddard: Femmephilia
In a series of provocative essays encompassing Marilyn Monroe, the myth of Apollo and Daphne, octopuses and girlbosses, reluctant heterosexu...
Elizabeth Bishop’s Styles: Andrew Dickinson and Peter McDonald
To call Elizabeth Bishop one of the greatest female American poets of the 20th century is to make too many qualifications. Increasingly, cri...
Colin Grant & Michael Rosen: What We Leave We Carry
Historian Colin Grant and WritersMosaic writers have travelled the length and breadth of the country to gather the voices and experiences of...
Erin Maglaque & Hannah Dawson: Presence
Erin Maglaque’s first book, Presence, explores the hidden history of the female body through deep archival research: fragments in medical te...
Eli Davies & Rebecca May Johnson: The Spinster Cookbook
The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of nourishment, care a...
Rachel Long & Sarah Howe: Sparrow on the Rooftop
Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions (Picador), was nominated for the Forward Prize, the Costa, and the Sunday Times Yo...
Michael Bracewell & Leo Robson: The Smiths
In Michael Bracewell’s new novella The Smiths an anonymous narrator recounts the impact of the iconic pop group on his life. Accompanied by...
Martha Sprackland & James Butler: John of the Cross
The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers...
Olivia Laing & Jack Parlett: The Silver Book
Venice, September 1974. A chance meeting between a young English artist and Danilo Donati, production manager for Fellini and Pasolini, lead...
Lauren Elkin & Shahidha Bari: Vocal Break
In Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power Lauren Elkin uses her own experience of training as a young soprano in the 1990s as a springboard...
Doireann Ní Ghríofa & Rachael Allen: Said the Dead
Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s new book Said the Dead is part history, part ghost story and part unreliable memoir, exploring the lives, presences an...
Daniel Trilling & William Davies: If We Tolerate This
Regular LRB contributor Daniel Trilling has been researching and writing about the far right in Britain and beyond for more than a decade. H...
M. John Harrison & Julia Armfield: The End of Everything
The great M. John Harrison – ‘The closest thing we have to a present-day Wyndham or Ballard’ according to the New Statesman – returns to the...
Brian Dillon & Olivia Laing: Ambivalence
In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seven...
Brian Dillon & Olivia Laing: Ambivalence
In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seven...
David Keenan & Andrew O’Hagan: Boyhood
David Keenan’s Boyhood (White Rabbit) opens in 1979 with the abduction of a young boy outside a Glasgow football ground. Nine years later, t...