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Tariq Ali & James Meek: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan
Tariq Ali has been observing and commenting on Afghanistan for more than four decades. He vehemently opposed the Soviet occupation in 1979, and the N…
4 years, 3 months ago
Stephanie Sy-Quia and Will Harris: Amnion
Stephanie Sy-Quia’s Amnion (Granta) is a one-of-a-kind ‘lyric epic’, weaving memoir, essay and poetics into one of 2021’s most eagerly awaited debut …
4 years, 4 months ago
Hazel Press Autumn 2021 Celebration
Hazel Press’s four 2020 titles were all LRB Bookshop bestsellers; we’re proud to be launching the first tranche of their four 2021 titles, one an ele…
4 years, 4 months ago
Iain Sinclair & Gareth Evans: The Gold Machine
Towards the end of the 19th century Iain Sinclair’s great-grandfather Arthur made an accident-prone and largely disastrous colonial expedition to Per…
4 years, 4 months ago
Karl Ove Knausgaard on 'The Morning Star'
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s series of autobiographical novels published in English as My Struggle propelled him to international fame, near universal accla…
4 years, 4 months ago
Chloe Aridjis & Lynne Tillman: Dialogue with a Somnambulist
Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses borde…
4 years, 5 months ago
Massimo Montanari and Rachel Roddy: A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
What could be simpler than a dish of pasta with tomato sauce? According to food historian Massimo Montanari’s latest book A Short History of Spaghett…
4 years, 5 months ago
Paul Gilroy and Adam Shatz on William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face
William Gardner Smith’s roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living against the backdrop of violence of Algerian War-era France, has bee…
4 years, 5 months ago
Revivalism: Penelope Fitzgerald, with Susannah Clapp and Hermione Lee
The Penelope Fitzgerald who wrote The Bookshop, Offshore and The Blue Flower is far too celebrated – as the greatest novelist of her time, according …
4 years, 5 months ago
Leo Boix and Andrew McMillan
Leo Boix and Andrew McMillan read and talk to celebrate the publication of Boix's long-awaited debut collection in English, Ballad of a Happy Immigra…
4 years, 6 months ago