LRB Conversations
22 September 2020
Jenny Turner talks to Joanna Biggs about the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement, the loneliness of feminist work, and the seemingly unavoidable question: How do you think your life...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
LRB Conversations
400 Million Guns
Deborah Friedell and Thomas Jones, 29 September 2020
15 September 2020
Deborah Friedell talks to Thomas Jones about the origins, and origin myths, of the National Rifle Association, how it spends its money, and why it's wary of winning.
Talking Politics
The Case Against Meritocracy
David Runciman and Helen Thompson, 29 September 2020
24 September 2020
David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the philosopher Michael Sandel about the damage that the idea of rewarding people on merit has done to education, democracy and public life. Why is it wrong...
Close Readings
On Adrienne Rich
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford, 29 September 2020
29 September 2020
In the latest episode of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, the great poetic interrogator of the American family home as a site of trauma for daughters...
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 29 September 2020
11 March 2020
In his 2020 LRB Winter Lecture, Richard Lloyd Parry considers the paradoxical figure of Akihito, who abdicated in April 2019: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly...
LRB Films & Interviews
Old Ties
Alan Bennett, 18 August 2020
24 December 2019
Alan Bennett examines his wardrobe, in his 2019 Diary.
Bookshop Events & Films
17 September 2020
Andrew O’Hagan discusses his new novel, Mayflies, with Edmund Gordon.
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