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John Boughton and Owen Hatherley: Municipal Dreams
From this 2018 event: In Municipal Dreams (Verso), John Boughton charts the often surprising story of council housing in Britain, from the slum clear…
5 years ago
Comic Timing: Holly Pester, Vahni Capildeo and Rachael Allen
Holly Pester's debut collection, Comic Timing (Granta), is disorienting, radical and extremely funny; Pester has a background in sound art and perfor…
5 years, 1 month ago
Paul Spooner and Rosemary Hill: Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
Having an engineer as a father and an art school education, Paul Spooner became, predictably, a school-teacher, then a lorry driver. A chance meeting…
5 years, 1 month ago
Patricia Lockwood and John Lanchester: No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood was in conversation about her new book, No One Is Talking About This (and a lot else besides) with fellow LRB contributing editor, …
5 years, 1 month ago
On Brigid Brophy: Bidisha, Terry Castle and Eley Williams
Brigid Brophy (1929-95) was a fearlessly original novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner, championing gay marriage, pacifism, vegetarian…
5 years, 1 month ago
Lauren Oyler and Olivia Sudjic: Fake Accounts
Lauren Oyler was talking abou her first novel, Fake Accounts, with the writer Olivia Sudjic, who has described it as 'Savage and shrewd, destined to …
5 years, 2 months ago
André Aciman and Brian Dillon: Homo Irrealis
André Aciman talked to Brian Dillon about his latest book, Homo Irrealis (Faber and Faber), a collection of essays on subjects as diverse as Freud, W…
5 years, 2 months ago
‘The Lark Ascending’: Richard King and Luke Turner
In The Lark Ascending (Faber) Richard King, author of Original Rockers and How Soon is Now?, explores how Britain's history and identity have been sh…
5 years, 2 months ago
Simon Winder and Adam Phillips: ‘Lotharingia’
Following on from his bestselling and hugely entertaining Germania and Danubia, Simon Winder continues his idiosyncratic journey through Europe’s pas…
5 years, 2 months ago
Hal Foster and Mark Godfrey: On Richard Serra
In his book Conversations About Sculpture (Yale) art historian Hal Foster recapitulates the discussions he has had, over a period of two decades, wi…
5 years, 3 months ago