London Review Bookshop Podcast
Episodes
Richard Sennett and Anna Minton: ‘Building and Dwelling’
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rich with arguments that speak directly to our moment - a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before - Building and Dwelling (Allen...
In the Dark Room: Brian Dillon and Sophie Ratcliffe
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this event from 2018, Brian Dillon, UK editor of Cabinet magazine and author of several books of essays, fiction, history and art criticism, talked...
Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster: Estates
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lynsey 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 ...
Essayism: Brian Dillon and Max Porter
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this event from June 2017, Brian Dillon talks to Max Porter about his latest book, Essayism (Fitzcarraldo Editions). Dillon has been fascinated by ...
Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Russian twentieth-century poetry is one of the pinnacles of European literature and we still know little about it. This event includes readings from ...
Scottish Spirits: Robin Robertson, Jen Hadfield and Alasdair Roberts
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As 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...
Daisy Lafarge and Rachael Allen: Life Without Air
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daisy Lafarge’s Life Without Air (Granta), following on the tails of her pamphlets understudies for air and capriccio, is one of the mostly hot...
Owen Hatherley and Ash Sarkar: Red Metropolis
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
London, the Capital of world capitalism, a centre of global finance and a place of immense wealth and privilege, has an often unacknowledged red under...
‘This Mournable Body’: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Sara Collins
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga presented her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted This Mournable Body (Faber). The...
Life With a Capital L: Geoff Dyer and Frances Wilson on D.H. Lawrence
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 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 a...
Andrew Motion and Alan Hollinghurst: Essex Clay
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On publication of Andrew Motion's new book of poetry, Essex Clay, he joined Alan Hollinghurst in conversation at St George's Bloomsbury. Hosted on Aca...
Brian Dillon and Olivia Laing: ‘Suppose a Sentence’
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writer 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 ...
John Lanchester and Sam Kinchin-Smith: Reality and Other Stories
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist, memoirist, essayist and contributing editor to the LRB John Lanchester sets out to chill you to the virtual bone with his first ever colle...
European Union Prize for Literature: Sunjeev Sahota, Evie Wyld and Catherine Taylor
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The European Union Prize for Literature aims to put the spotlight on the creativity and diverse wealth of Europe’s contemporary literature and to pr...
Last Stories: Kevin Barry, Hermione Lee, Di Speirs & Salley Vickers on William Trevor
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In celebration of the life, work and legacy of William Trevor, one of the giants of modern Irish fiction, authors Salley Vickers, Kevin Barry, Hermion...
Carcanet New Poetries VII
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We 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 firs...
Andrew O’Hagan and Edmund Gordon: Mayflies
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Three-times Booker-nominated author and LRB editor-at-large Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel centres on the powerful friendship between James and T...
Akwaeke Emezi and Louisa Joyner: The Death of Vivek Oji
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted f...
Kirsty Gunn and Max Porter: Caroline’s Bikini
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist and essayist Kirsty Gunn’s latest novel Caroline’s Bikini is a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature –...
Chantal Mouffe and John Trickett: For a Left Populism
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leading 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 ...
Maureen N. McLane and Sarah Howe
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Across five collections, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has won admirers for its distinctive mix of the humourous and the cerebral, a voice the London Re...
Javier Cercas and Gaby Wood: ‘Lord of All the Dead’
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘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 f...
To Leave and to Be Left Behind: Five Dials launch with Sophie Mackintosh, Rachael Allen, Bridget Minamore and Yara Rodrigues Fowler
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Five 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. ...
Richard McGuire and Dave McKean: Home
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Dave McKean, Richard McGuire talks about his graphic novel, Here, a book-length expansion of his groundbreaking 1989 sequence of ...
Chloe Diski and Deborah Friedell on Jenny Diski
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the publication of Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?, a new selection of Jenny Diski's LRB essays, chosen and introduced by Mary...
Deborah Levy, Juliet Jacques and Jennifer Hodgson: Ann Quin
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two of Ann Quin’s admirers, novelist and essayist Deborah Levy and writer and critic Juliet Jacques, will be joined in conversation about her life a...
Morgan Parker and Georgina Lawton: ‘Magical Negro’
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé (Corsair) won Morgan Parker a wide UK readership; Magical Negro takes and expands on the achievement ...
Lorna Goodison and Linton Kwesi Johnson
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Writing on Lorna Goodison’s poetry, Derek Walcott asks ‘What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? ...
Hot Milk: Deborah Levy and Lauren Elkin
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is a sort of chase for coherence in the current commercial market for fiction ... a sort of terror of there being any kind of mystery in a book,...
Citizens of Everywhere: Shami Chakrabarti, Tom McCarthy, Eloise Todd and Lauren Elkin
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are we English, British, European, citizens of the planet Earth or none of the above? The ‘Citizens of Everywhere’ project invites writers, artist...
Lost Voices: Fred D'Aguiar, David Olusoga, Catherine Fletcher and Nandini Das
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fleeting appearance of black faces in Tudor paintings marks the silent presence of a community's untold story. Who were the black men and women wh...
Nancy Fraser and Ann Pettifor: 'Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory'
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (Polity) Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi engage in a critical dialogue that seeks to expand our under...
Danny Dorling, Richard Wilkinson and Rupa Huq: ‘A Better Politics’
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and, according to Simon Jenkins in the Guardian, 'the geographer royal by appointme...
Laleh Khalili and Rafeef Ziadah: ‘Sinews of War and Trade’
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laleh Khalili and Rafeef Ziadah on shipping and capitalism in the Arabian peninsula. You can order the book discussed in this episode here: lrb.me/ord...
Tim Dee, Marina Warner and Ken Worpole: Ground Work
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Radio producer and naturalist Tim Dee has curated in Ground Work (Cape) an essential collection of autobiographical essays from distinguished writers,...
Nikita Lalwani and Mary Mount: ‘You People’
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nikita Lalwani’s latest novel You People (Viking) centres on a London pizzeria where the chefs are Sri Lankan and many of the kitchen staff are il...
Adam Mars-Jones and Richard Scott: ‘Box Hill’
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Mars-Jones talks about his newly-published novel, ‘Box Hill’ with Richard Scott. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Danny Dorling and Zoe Williams: Slowdown
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although our events programme is on hold at the moment, we’re delighted that Danny Dorling and Zoe Williams could get together virtually to record t...
Mick Herron and Miranda Carter: Joe Country
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mick Herron’s hero/anti-hero Jackson Lamb is everything Le Carré’s Smiley isn’t, as well as quite a lot of what he is. Drunk, obese, bone-idle ...
Plastic Emotions: Shiromi Pinto, Owen Hatherley and Olivia Sudjic
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
‘We architects must be idealists’, wrote Minnette de Silva, Sri Lanka’s first female architect. Shiromi Pinto’s second novel, Plastic Emotion...
Sam Contis and Joanna Biggs: Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Contis discusses ‘Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper’, the way women photographers are remembered and forgotten and how one artist encounters anot...
Lars Iyer and Jon Day: Nietzsche and the Burbs
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lars Iyer, author of the Spurious trilogy and Wittgenstein Jr. revisits philosophy in his latest novel Nietzsche and the Burbs (Melville House)....
Jean Sprackland and Chris McCabe: These Silent Mansions
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her previous book Strands poet and essayist Jean Sprackland brought lyrically to life the hidden histories of objects found on her local beaches....
Anne Enright and Andrew O’Hagan: Actress
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress (Cape) tells the story of the relationship between Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell and her daughter Norah,...
Leïla Slimani & Amia Srinivasan: Sex and Lies
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Leïla Slimani was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby. Her latest book Sex and Lies (Faber) de...
Julia Ebner and Daniel Trilling: Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she...
Beethoven: The Poets’ Take: Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus & Ruth Padel
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, studi...
Will Harris & Rachael Allen: RENDANG
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will Harris reads from his debut collection RENDANG, alongside poet and editor Rachael Allen. Find out about upcoming events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/b...
Samantha Harvey and Tessa Hadley: The Shapeless Unease
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The writer Samantha Harvey has won wide acclaim and a devoted following for her novels, most recently The Western Wind, set in mediavel Somerset. In h...
Square Haunting: Francesca Wade & Alexandra Harris
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the period between the wars nearby Mecklenburgh Square was home to many artists, writers and radicals. In a stunning work of rediscovery Francesca ...
Alexander Zevin and Tariq Ali: Liberalism at Large
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Zevin's Liberalism at Large (Verso) is the first critical biography of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tir...
Rachel Cusk & Chris Power: Coventry
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Observer called Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy ‘a landmark in twenty-first century English literature, the culmination of an artist’s unshake...
Benjamin Moser and Lara Feigel on Susan Sontag
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag’s writing – on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style,...
Stephen Hough and James Jolly: Rough Ideas
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Long regarded as one of the world’s leading pianists, Stephen Hough is also a fine and perceptive writer, whose first novel was published last year....
Astra Taylor and David Graeber: Democracy May Not Exist, But ...
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book, Astra Taylor – ‘a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity’s most profound questions yet entirely devo...
Diane Williams and Lara Pawson: Collected Stories
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Diane Williams’s short (most of them very short) stories have been captivating literary audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for the last three d...
Celia Paul and Catherine Lampert: Self-Portrait
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Paul, born in India in 1959 and now resident in Bloomsbury is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in Britain today. Fol...
This is Not Propaganda: Peter Pomerantsev with Marina Hyde and Carl Miller
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Something strange has happened to truth in the past few years. Politicians, marketeers, Twitterists and others seem to have come to the conclusion tha...
Saidiya Hartman and Lola Olufemi: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the 20th Century, the first emancipated generation of black women in the USA were obliged, sometimes enabled and often hindered in...
Jorge Galán and Mark Dowd: November
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Galán’s extraordinary non-fiction novel Noviembre, now published in an English translation by Jason Wilson as November, recounts the horrifyi...
Kathleen Jamie and Philip Hoare: Surfacing
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book ‘Surfacing’ (Sort of Books), poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie explores what emerges: from the earth, from memory and from the m...
LRB at 40: Jeremy Harding, Nikita Lalwani and Adam Shatz
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Harding and Adam Shatz discussed shared preoccupations including decolonisation and orientalism, Israel-Palestine, 20th-century music, and Fran...
LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley discuss fictional representations of women’s everyday lives with the LRB’s Joanna Biggs, as part of a series of events ...
LRB at 40: William Davies and Katrina Forrester
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday 16 October, William Davies and Katrina Forrester discussed shared preoccupations including the subjects of their recent books, Nervous St...
LRB at 40: Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair
20 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talk to the LRB's digital editor, Sam Kinchin-Smith, about their shared preoccupations with London, as written about i...
Against Memoir: Michelle Tea and Juliet Jacques
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Against Memoir (And Other Stories), Michelle Tea takes us through the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in America. Via a series of essa...
Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max Porter, Emily Berry
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and late...
Ian Penman and Jennifer Hodgson: It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-ge...
Nell Zink and Alex Clark: Doxology
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Zink, born in Virginia in 1964 and now resident in Germany, is one of the most remarkable novelists of her, and indeed any generation. Her exuber...
Nicola Barker and Ali Smith: I Am Sovereign
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In twelve inimitable, eccentric, hilarious, disturbing and powerful novels, Nicola Barker has established herself as one of the most inventive and pow...
Deborah Levy and Shahidha Bari: The Man Who Saw Everything
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
‘A writer is only as interesting as what she pays attention to.’ Deborah Levy is the author of many plays, novels, short stories and essay collect...
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us: Simon Critchley and Shahidha Bari
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the New School in New York, where Simon Critchley teaches, ‘Critchley on Tragedy’ is one of the most consistently oversubscribed courses. Now, ...
Afterglow: Eileen Myles
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1990, Eileen Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the...
The Mars Room: Rachel Kushner and Adam Thirlwell
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Romy Hall, the protagonist of Rachel Kushner’s latest novel *[The Mars Room][1]* (Cape), is beginning two consecutive life sentences plus six months...
Melissa Benn and Ed Miliband: Life Lessons
25 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Life Lessons (Verso) Melissa Benn explores how we need to rethink education for life. As more and more of us live and work longer than ever before,...
John Berger – A Writer of Our Time: Joshua Sperling and Leo Hollis
24 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Berger was one of the most various of writers and men: art critic, essayist, novelist, poet and much-missed friend of the shop. In *[A Writer of ...
Peter Pomerantsev & Devorah Baum: The Politics of Feeling
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Issue 146 of Granta is themed around the politics of feeling. Guest co-editor Devorah Baum interviews Peter Pomerantsev about his piece ‘Normalnost’...
Daddy Issues: Katherine Angel and Sarah Moss
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Angel’s Daddy Issues engages with what Lauren Elkin has called ‘that forgotten figure in feminism’s critique of patriarchy: the father...
An American Marriage: Tayari Jones and Cathy Rentzenbrink
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, An American Marriage (Oneworld) is a thrilling depiction of the American Dream in freefall. Barack Obama (n...
Robert Chandler and David Herman on Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s but smuggled out of Russia with the help of Andrey Sakharov in th...
Writers on Recordings: Rachel Cusk on Katherine Anne Porter
17 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary artists o...
Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary artists o...
Promise of a Dream: Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Rowbotham’s many books, in history, politics, feminist theory and biography, have established her firmly at the forefront of both the women’...
Guestbook: Ghost Stories: Leanne Shapton and Adam Thirlwell
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest work Guestbook: Ghost Stories (Particular Books) Leanne Shapton, through a series of stories and vignettes, encounters the uncanny. Are ...
For the Good Times: David Keenan and Bill Drummond
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Keenan’s For the Good Times (Faber), set in Belfast during The Troubles, pursues four friends battling for an identity in a neighbourhood hara...
Dressed: Shahidha Bari and Marina Warner
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her first book Dressed (Jonathan Cape), Shahidha Bari explores the hidden memories, meanings and ideas which are wrapped up in our clothes; themes ...
Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen back to an evening of readings and discussion from three outstanding poets, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe. ------ Mary Jean Chan's...
Queer Cultures of Resistance: Niven Govinden, Amelia Abraham and Isabel Waidner
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the publication of Niven Govinden’s This Brutal House (Dialogue Books), we hosted a round table discussion about LGBTQI+ literature and cult...
Race and Poetry Reviewing: Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and Parul Sehgalhttp://media.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/2019-06-21-race-and-poetry-event.mp3
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An evening of discussion and poetry readings with poets Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal. This l...
Writers on Recordings: Nicola Barker on T.S. Eliot
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Barker discusses T.S. Eliot, with reference to his appearances at New York’s 92nd Street Y, with the 92Y’s Reading Series producer Bernard ...
Full Surrogacy Now: Sophie Lewis and Joanna Biggs
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Full Surrogacy Now (Verso), Sophie Lewis takes on the surrogacy industry – worth over one billion dollars a year in the USA alone, and famously e...
Writers on Recordings: The A.L. Kennedy Mixtape
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A.L. Kennedy discusses a personal mixtape of early influences (Cummings, Burgess, Pinter, Feiffer), with reference to their appearances at New York’...
Writers on Recordings: Mark Ford on John Ashbery
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Ford discusses John Ashbery, with reference to his appearances at New York’s 92nd Street Y, with the 92Y’s Reading Series producer Bernard Sc...
Tracy K Smith and Jay Bernard
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tracy K. Smith is the 22nd Poet Laureate of the USA. Her last collection, Wade in the Water, was nominated for a Forward Prize; her last-but-one, Life...
Mother Ship: Francesca Segal and Olivia Laing
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
‘Every new baby is its own crisis.’ The ‘mother ship’ of Francesca Segal’s memoir is the neonatal intensive care unit where she was confined...
A Terrible Country: Keith Gessen and Vadim Nikitin
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist, journalist and translator Keith Gessen will be at the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel A Terrible Country, published by Fit...
Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Rooney breathes new life into fiction. Her novels deal with ordinary life in all its unexpected ways. The Guardian said of Rooney’s debut nove...
Algiers, Third World Capital: Elaine Mokhtefi and Adam Shatz
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After Algeria gained its independence from France in 1962 Algiers became the de facto capital of anti-imperialism, anti-racism and world revolution, a...
Karl Ove Knausgaard and Charlotte Higgins on Edvard Munch
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the...
Jhumpa Lahiri and Chris Power on Italian Short Stories
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jhumpa Lahiri, author of several highly acclaimed novels, described in her memoir In Other Words her passionate romance with the Italian language. She...