Episodios

  • Stephen Grosz & Helen MacDonald: Love’s Labour

    Stephen Grosz & Helen MacDonald: Love’s Labour
    Apr 15 2026
    In his bestselling debut The Examined Life psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz explored how we learn to live. Now in Love’s Labour (Chatto) he turns to the equally perplexing topic of how we love. Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephen Grosz asks, what gets in the way of our falling in love? And what must we do to stay there? Grosz was in conversation with Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk and Vesper Flights.
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    59 m
  • Ruby Tandoh & Olivia Sudjic: All Consuming

    Ruby Tandoh & Olivia Sudjic: All Consuming
    Apr 13 2026
    In All Consuming (Serpent’s Tail) Ruby Tandoh wittily explores the way we eat now, from social media to restaurant critics to the perfect dinner party to the meteoric rise of bubble tea. Felicity Cloake, author of Completely Perfect, writes ‘Fascinating, funny and devastatingly honest, a must-read on modern food culture in all its technicolour cheese-drenched glory.’ Tandoh was in conversation with the essayist and novelist Olivia Sudjic.
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Lorna Goodison & Fawzia Muradali Kane: Dante’s Inferno

    Lorna Goodison & Fawzia Muradali Kane: Dante’s Inferno
    Apr 11 2026
    Leading Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison will be in London to present her latest work, Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet). As much a transformation as a translation, Goodison’s reworking casts the great Jamaican folklorist and poet Louise ‘Miss Lou’ Bennett-Coverley as Virgil, and moves the action to the Caribbean, where we encounter other poets, including Goodison’s friend Derek Walcott, local politicians, reggae pioneers and other figures from the island’s past, at the same time endowing Jamaican patois with a startling beauty and power. Goodison was in conversation with poet and architect Fawzia Muradali Kane.
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    1 h y 7 m
  • Michael Symmons Roberts & Hannah Westland on John Burnside

    Michael Symmons Roberts & Hannah Westland on John Burnside
    Apr 8 2026
    The Empire of Forgetting (Cape) is the final collection of the Scottish poet, novelist and essayist John Burnside, who died in May last year. Fellow poet Kathleen Jamie describes him as ‘a titan of literature…. His passing leaves a gap not only in our literature, but in our ability to exist in the world. He increased the possible ways of our being.’ To coincide with this publication, Cape are reissuing Burnside’s three volumes of memoir, A Lie About My Father, Waking Up in Toytown and I Put a Spell on You with new introductions. Poet and essayist Michael Symmons Roberts and editor Hannah Westland paid tribute to Burnside and celebrated his life and work.
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    1 h
  • Miriam Toews & Octavia Bright: A Truce That Is Not Peace

    Miriam Toews & Octavia Bright: A Truce That Is Not Peace
    Apr 6 2026
    In her first work of non-fiction A Truce That Is Not Peace (4th Estate), acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews spirals out from a question asked of her at a literary festival in Mexico City – ‘Why do you write?’ – in a dazzling exploration of grief, guilt, futility and creativity. Toews read from her work, and discussed it with Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace.
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    1 h y 1 m
  • Camilla Grudova & Jennifer Hodgson: Ágota Kristóf’s ‘I Don’t Care’

    Camilla Grudova & Jennifer Hodgson: Ágota Kristóf’s ‘I Don’t Care’
    Apr 4 2026
    Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writing in French. Most famous for her Notebook Trilogy – ‘A book through which I discovered what kind of person I really want to be’ (Slavoj Žižek) – her short stories, now available for the first time in English as the Penguin Classic volume I Don’t Care (tr. Chris Andrews), have been described by Max Porter as ‘pure genius’. In this episode, Canadian writer Camilla Grudova discusses Kristóf’s work and place in the late modernist literary firmament with Jennifer Hodgson. More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/storebkshppod⁠ Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk
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    59 m
  • Lauren Elkin & Lou Stoppard on Simone de Beauvoir

    Lauren Elkin & Lou Stoppard on Simone de Beauvoir
    Apr 1 2026
    Inspired by the new editions of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1966 novel The Image of Her and travel diary America Day by Day (Vintage), translator and novelist Lauren Elkin and writer and curator Lou Stoppard talked about the life, works and legacy of one of feminism’s most enduring icons.
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    1 h
  • Ariel at 60: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Lavinia Greenlaw & Richard Scott

    Ariel at 60: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Lavinia Greenlaw & Richard Scott
    Mar 30 2026
    Sylvia Plath’s second collection Ariel (Faber) was published in 1965, two years after the poet’s death, in a version somewhat reconfigured from her draft copy by Ted Hughes. Plath’s original arrangement was restored in 2004 in an edition edited by her daughter Frieda Hughes. To mark Ariel’s 60th birthday and the new Faber edition, poets Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Richard Scott read from Plath’s work and from their own, and examined the abiding legacy of one of the 20th century’s most influential literary documents. Fellow poet and essayist Lavinia Greenlaw was in the chair.
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    51 m