LRB Conversations
8 June 2021
Legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman talks to Thomas Jones about his latest book, Street Cop, a collaboration with Robert Coover, and looks back on previous work including Maus and In the Shadow of...
Podcasts & Videos
Podcasts
LRB Conversations
Diary From the Pandemic Year
Alan Bennett, 11 June 2021
26 May 2021
Alan Bennett reads selections from his diary from March 2020 to March 2021.
Talking Politics
Covid-Union-Labour-Brexit-Climate
David Runciman and Helen Thompson, 11 June 2021
10 June 2021
This week David and Helen take stock of the state of British politics, looking at how the big themes of the last year fit together.
Close Readings
On Emily Dickinson
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary, 11 June 2021
1 June 2021
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O‘Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson, her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.
Videos
Lectures & Events
Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Richard Lloyd Parry, 11 June 2021
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
8 April 2021
Anthony Wilks's film traces the connections between the events of Eric Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany and his communist membership, to the jazz clubs of...
Bookshop Events & Films
6 May 2021
Rebecca Solnit discusses her new memoir with Mary Beard.
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