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  17 August 2017 Wallace Shawn and Adam Shatz: Writer and actor Wallace Shawn talks to Adam Shatz about ‘the thin line between entertainment and cruelty’ in the age of Trump.
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  2 August 2017 Post-Press Politics: William Davies talks to Tom Crewe about politics in the new media age.
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  19 July 2017 Podcast: Panthers in Algiers: Elaine Mokhtefi talks to Jeremy Harding about her time working in Algeria in the 1960s when she met Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver.
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  29 June 2017 Rosemary Hill: ‘Bohemia was never a safe country for women. If they didn’t all die of consumption in a garret, many of them might as well have done’ – Rosemary Hill on the letters of Ida John.
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  22 June 2017 Andrew O’Hagan: ‘It’s like the drunken lout at a party who can’t get anyone to like him.’ Andrew O’Hagan reads the Daily Mail.
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  6 June 2017 The Corbyn Project: Tom Crewe talks to Lorna Finlayson about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s prospects in the general election and beyond.
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  18 May 2017 Karma Nabulsi: ‘Once you start seeing everyday behaviour as having the potential to draw people into terrorism, you’re inside the problem’ – Karma Nabulsi on the British government’s Prevent programme.
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  11 May 2017 Looking at Larkin: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the work of Philip Larkin, drawing on articles from our archive by contributors including Alan Bennett, Barbara Everett and John Bayley.
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  28 April 2017 Julian Barnes: Julian Barnes on Georges Simenon and Brexit.
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  21 April 2017 Adam Shatz: Adam Shatz talks to Joshua Landis about the war in Syria.
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  13 April 2017 Talking Politics: John Lanchester: David Runciman talks to John Lanchester about banks, Europe and technology in this latest collaboration with Talking Politics.
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  30 March 2017 Iain Sinclair: Iain Sinclair delivers his lecture on ‘The Last London’ at the British Museum, as part of the LRB’s Winter Lecture series.
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  16 March 2017 Mary Beard: Mary Beard delivers her lecture ‘Women in Power’ at the British Museum.
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  28 February 2017 Talking Politics: Mary Beard: In the first of our ongoing and occasional collaboration with the Talking Politics podcast, David Runciman talks to Mary Beard about women in power.
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  12 January 2017 Emily Witt: Emily Witt goes to the Burning Man gathering in Nevada, from our 17 July 2014 issue.
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  5 January 2017 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett reads his diary for 2016.
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  4 January 2017 On John Berger: To mark John Berger’s 90th birthday, the London Review Bookshop and Verso Books organised a discussion of his work with Mike Dibb, Yasmin Gunaratnam and Tom Overton, hosted by Gareth Evans.
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  15 December 2016 Frederick Seidel: Frederick Seidel reads his poem ‘In Late December’.
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  1 December 2016 Hal Foster: Hal Foster reviews the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at Tate Modern.
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  20 October 2016 Susan Pedersen: Susan Pedersen on the birth of ‘International Relations’.
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  12 August 2016 Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age: Mary-Kay Wilmers, Andrew O’Hagan and Ben Eastham talk to Sarah Howe about ‘Long-Form Essays in the Digital Age’.
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  28 July 2016 John Lanchester: John Lanchester on the implications of the UK’s EU referendum.
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  14 July 2016 Gavin Francis: Gavin Francis observes the autopsy of a man pulled from a river.
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  30 June 2016 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O'Hagan watches Craig Wright show Gavin Andresen, one of the most respected bitcoin core developers, that he holds the Satoshi key.
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  30 June 2016 Frederick Seidel: Frederick Seidel reads his poem ‘Trump for President!’.
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  16 June 2016 Peter Pomerantsev: Peter Pomerantsev remembers his time in the 'English section' at the European School in Munich.
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  2 June 2016 Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein examines how Edward Said’s ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have long been the silent partners to climate change.
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  31 March 2016 Charles Hope: Charles Hope on Giorgione, 'a sort of Venetian counterpart to Leonardo'.
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  31 March 2016 Colm Tóibín: Colm Tóibín on the story of Easter 1916.
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  17 March 2016 Julian Bell: Julian Bell discusses Delacroix and his heirs.
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  3 March 2016 Frances Stonor Saunders: Frances Stonor Saunders on the crossing of borders.
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  18 February 2016 James Meek: James Meek asks how, in a time of austerity economics, we define the robber and the robbed.
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  7 January 2016 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett Works the Line
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  3 December 2015 David Runciman: David Runciman on Margaret Thatcher
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  5 November 2015 Chaohua Wang: Chaohua Wang on justice in China.
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  24 September 2015 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O'Hagan crosses the road.
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  10 September 2015 Robert Hanks: Robert Hanks on the pleasures and pains of putting things off.
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  30 July 2015 Julian Barnes: Julian Barnes on Van Gogh.
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  21 May 2015 Seymour M. Hersh: Seymour Hersh talks to Christian Lorentzen about his pieces for the LRB, collected in a new book, The Killing of Osama bin Laden.
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  21 May 2015 Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the rise of the Houthis in Yemen.
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  7 May 2015 Hilary Mantel: Hilary Mantel reads her short story, ‘The School of English’.
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  9 April 2015 Tariq Ali: In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Tariq Ali argues that we are living in the twilight period of democracy.
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  19 March 2015 Marina Warner: In her 2015 Winter Lecture, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed.
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  5 March 2015 Adam Phillips: In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Adam Phillips reflects on the ways we hate ourselves.
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  19 February 2015 Peter Pomerantsev: Peter Pomerantsev on images and myths of Maidan.
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  5 February 2015 Rosemary Hill: Rosemary Hill on the life and disappearance of Lord Lucan.
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  22 January 2015 Owen Bennett-Jones: Owen Bennett-Jones on the messengers that paved the way for the Northern Ireland peace process.
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  8 January 2015 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett on what he did in 2014.
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  18 December 2014 James Meek: James Meek on the British army’s eight years in Afghanistan.
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  4 December 2014 T.J. Clark: T.J. Clark comes face to face with Rembrandt.
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  11 September 2014 John Lanchester: John Lanchester explains what’s next on the world of money’s Official Worry List.
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  19 June 2014 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett read this sermon before the University, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 1 June 2014.
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  20 March 2014 Mary Beard: Mary Beard reflects on the way women are heard – and have been heard – in public, from Homer’s Odyssey through Margaret Thatcher to internet trolls.
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  6 March 2014 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan spent six months with Julian Assange helping him write his autobiography, though in the event Assange didn’t want the book published. O’Hagan speaks about those six months for the first time.
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  20 February 2014 James Wood: James Wood explores the estrangement of voluntary emigration: the puzzling sense of losing the country you leave and failing to find another. Homelessness, in a word.
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  9 January 2014 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett reluctantly pays some overdue bills.
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  19 December 2013 Jenny Turner: Jenny Turner on Penelope Fitzgerald
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  21 November 2013 Adam Shatz: Adam Shatz on the life and death of Juliano Mer-Khamis.
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  7 November 2013 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan remembers Norman Mailer.
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  24 October 2013 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose on what links Frank Kermode and Nigel Farage.
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  26 September 2013 Jeremy Harding: In August, as Australian politicians hung tough on asylum seekers, the Melbourne Writers Festival asked Jeremy Harding how far governments can patrol migration. With grateful acknowledgments to the Alan Missen Foundation and Liberty Victoria.
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  1 September 2013 Jacqueline Rose: Recognised for her writing on subjects including Sylvia Plath, feminism, Proust, psychoanalysis, Zionism, the Middle East conflict and Jewish identity, Rose discusses her work with Justin Clemens, co-editor (wtih Ben Naparstek) of the Jacqueline Rose Reader.
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  31 August 2013 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. She explains how each of these remarkable women straddled the divide between their political and inner lives. Chaired by Hilary Harper.
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  31 August 2013 Colm Tóibín: Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, including his recent book The Testament of Mary, in which he re-imagines the life of Christ through the eyes of the holiest of saints. With Michael McGirr.
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  8 August 2013 Michael Wood: Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a restored print for the film’s fiftieth anniversary.
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  18 July 2013 Lavinia Greenlaw: Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of singer Tracey Thorn’s rise from bedroom rehearsals and an ad in the NME to indie label Cherry Red (who also signed Greenlaw’s band), the top ten and a platinum record.
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  4 July 2013 Marina Warner: Marina Warner explores Emily Davison’s legacy as the suffragettes’ first martyr in a talk given at the inaugural Wilding Festival at St George’s Bloomsbury, where Davison’s memorial service was held.
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  20 June 2013 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan tells the story of Alexis Neiers and the rest of the ‘Bling Ring’ who stole from Paris Hilton in order to be more like Paris Hilton.
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  6 June 2013 Patrick Cockburn: Patrick Cockburn explains why the Syrian war feels close to ending when it isn’t and how YouTube is changing war reporting.
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  23 May 2013 Diane Williams: Diane Williams reads ‘Perform Small Tasks’ and ‘Removal Men’.
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  2 May 2013 Robin Robertson: Robin Robertson reads his versions of Nonnus and a selection of other poems.
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  18 April 2013 Mark Ford: Mark Ford reads a selection of poems he’s published in the LRB.
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  11 April 2013 Nicholas Spice: On the centenary of Wagner’s birth, Nicholas Spice asks in his Winter Lecture at the British Museum how his music works on us and what this tells us about music in general.
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  21 March 2013 David Runciman: David Runciman on the impossibility and persistence of the US political system.
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  18 March 2013 Noam Chomsky: In his 2013 Edward W. Said lecture Noam Chomsky reflects on 65 years of violence in the Middle East.
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  7 March 2013 Adam Phillips: Adam Phillips considers the sadomasochism of childhood and the pleasures and pains of tantrums.
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  21 February 2013 Hilary Mantel: Introduced by Neil MacGregor, Hilary Mantel considers the royal body from Anne Boleyn’s ‘bosom not much raised’ to Kate Middleton’s equally modest endowment.
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  1 February 2013 Shakespeare: Our Contemporary?: Colin Burrow, Michael Dobson, James Shapiro, Emma Smith and Marina Warner discuss the ways we continue to make (and occasionally unmake) Shakespeare in our own image.
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  24 January 2013 August Kleinzahler: August Kleinzahler reads and talks about some of the poems he’s published in the LRB.
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  3 January 2013 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett rides in Mr Murdoch’s car and gets a review from T.S. Eliot.
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  22 November 2012 Colin Burrow: Colin Burrow on the reasons Jane Eyre is called Jane Eyre and Tom Jones is called Tom Jones.
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  8 November 2012 Anne Carson: Anne Carson reads ‘A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways’.
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  25 October 2012 Adam Mars-Jones: Adam Mars-Jones imagines J.K. Rowling bringing the manuscript ‘The Casual Vacancy’ to him for advice.
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  11 October 2012 Tom Carver: Tom Carver on the night Kim Philby disappeared from the rue Kantari.
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  27 September 2012 Michael Friedman: Michael Friedman gets arrested and spends the night at Central Booking.
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  13 September 2012 James Meek: James Meek wonders how Britain happened to sell off its electricity.
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  19 July 2012 Andrew O’Hagan: Andrew O’Hagan on the art of terrible writing about sex.
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  5 July 2012 Marina Warner: Marina Warner watches Damien Hirst’s butterflies hatch.
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  15 June 2012 Ahdaf Soueif: In the 2012 Edward Said Lecture at the British Museum, Ahdaf Soueif explains ‘Mina’s Banner’
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  7 June 2012 Vladimir Nabokov: Ralph Fiennes reads ‘The University Poem’, which Nabokov wrote in 1926, four years after he left Trinity College, Cambridge.
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  24 May 2012 Iain Sinclair: Iain Sinclair meets the last of the Beats, the poet Gary Snyder.
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  2 May 2012 Daljit Nagra: Daljit Nagra reads ‘This Be the Pukka Verse’ and ‘A Ballad for Bopoluchi’.
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  26 April 2012 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose celebrates Marilyn Monroe.
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  5 April 2012 John Lanchester: John Lanchester writes about Marx at 193.
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  22 March 2012 Neal Ascherson: Neal Ascherson writes about Europe, its pasts and its possible future
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  8 March 2012 Charlotte Brontë: Gillian Anderson reads ‘Ingratitude’, a lost fable by Charlotte Brontë.
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  9 February 2012 Jeremy Harding: Jeremy Harding discusses the politics of migration and the battle at Europe's borders.
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  9 February 2012 Denise Riley: Denise Riley reads ‘A Part Song’, her first poem in the LRB for many years.
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  26 January 2012 Tariq Ali: Tariq Ali visited North Korea twice in the 1960s and met the ‘Great and Beloved Leader’ himself.
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  5 January 2012 Alan Bennett: Alan Bennett considers the banana skin and is mistaken for ‘another Alan’ in his Diary for 2011.
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  19 August 2011 The Wonderfulness of Us: Andrew O’Hagan chaired this discussion between Linda Colley, R.W. Johnson and Tom Devine about national histories and the ways they should, and should not, be taught.
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  7 June 2011 Jacqueline Rose: Jacqueline Rose speaks about her first readings of Freud and Jung and her encounters with feminism, Sylvia Plath and Israel/Palestine.
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  3 March 2011 Judith Butler: Judith Butler asks ‘Who Owns Kafka?’ in one of the LRB’s 2011 Winter Lectures.
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  14 February 2011 T.J. Clark: In his 2011 Winter Lecture at the British Museum, T.J. Clark shows how the painting of Guernica in May and June 1937 changed the way Picasso imagined space.