Edward Said and Late Style’ at the Southbank Centre on 9 March 2025, and other relevant writing from the LRB archive. To read ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Laleh Khalili talks to Tom about the mythology of covert military operatives, through romance novels, self-help books ...

Adam Shatz, the LRB’s US editor, talks to Sindre Bangstad and Reza Zia-Ebrahimi about the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, from its origins in the high tide of French colonial expansionism in the ...

Colm Tóibín talks to Tom about the life and work of the novelist John McGahern through his recently published correspondence, which includes letters to Tóibín. They discuss his family, his banned work ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Katherine Rundell has been writing about endangered animals in the LRB since 2018. Her new book, The Golden Mole ...

Enzo Traverso talks to Adam Shatz about his new book on the history of revolutionary passions, images and ideas, from Haiti’s emancipatory slave rebellion in 1791 to Stalin’s top-down authoritarianism ...

Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed and The Idiot, talks to Merve Emre about her latest novel Either/Or. International travel, Harvard, Hungary and of course literature and philosophy collide in a ...

Emma John and Natasha Chahal join Tom to discuss England’s victory in Euro 2022, the long history of women’s football – mentioned in a poem by Philip Sidney in the 16th century, banned by the FA for ...

Jeremy Smith teaches at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, and is Professor of Border and Russian Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.

Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, ...

Essayist Lauren Oyler – ‘the kind of dangerous writer we need more of’ according to Niamh Campbell – talks to Olivia Sudjic about her debit novel, Fake Accounts. Patricia Lockwood talks to John ...