London Review of Books10 小时
Managing Discontent
Starmer’s strategy of modest progress and alliance-building could be scuppered by the fiscal hawks in his ...
London Review of Books2 天
Close Readings
In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he ...
London Review of Books2 年
Among the Ancients: The ‘Iliad’
Your browser does not support the audio element. In episode one of Among the Ancients, Emily and Tom begin with a beginning, Homer’s Iliad: its depictions of anger ...
London Review of Books9 个月
The Shoah After Gaza
Your browser does not support the audio element. Pankaj Mishra joins Adam Shatz to discuss his recent LRB Winter Lecture, in which he explores Israel’s ...
London Review of Books1 年
The Hayek Puzzle
Your browser does not support the audio element. Long before Margaret Thatcher told her cabinet that The Constitution of Liberty was “what we believe”, neoliberal ...
London Review of Books1 年
The Case of Agatha Christie
Your browser does not support the audio element. Agatha Christie, writes John Lanchester, ‘is the only writer by whom I’ve read more than fifty books. So – why ...
London Review of Books5 天
The LRB Podcast
In the second of three conversations about the crisis in the Middle East, recorded shortly before the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was reported, Yezid Sayigh talks to Adam Shatz about why he ...
London Review of Books3 个月
Streisand’s Way
Singing, acting, directing, writing: Barbra Streisand always insisted on doing it her way. Malin Hay, who recently reviewed Streisand’s 992-page autobiography, joins Tom to discuss her performances on ...
London Review of Books2 年
China's Gold Rush Migrants
Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about them promoted by local politicians, and their role ...
London Review of Books5 年
Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe
Mary Jean Chan's first full length collection Flèche is published by Faber this July. Her debut pamphlet, A Hurry of English, was selected as the 2018 Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice. She ...
London Review of Books1 年
Life in Kyiv
Almost eighteen months since Russia invaded Ukraine, Kyiv residents have resumed something resembling pre-war life. James Meek recently returned to the city, and joins Tom to discuss the new normal: ...
London Review of Books4 年
Modern-ish Poets: Sylvia Plath
Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry. They consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath’s work, situating her as a ...