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Kirsty Gunn and Max Porter: Caroline’s Bikini
Novelist and essayist Kirsty Gunn’s latest novel Caroline’s Bikini is a powerful retelling of one of the oldest stories in western literature – that …
5 years, 8 months ago
Chantal Mouffe and John Trickett: For a Left Populism
Leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism today: it is more than an ideology or a political regime. It is a…
5 years, 8 months ago
Maureen N. McLane and Sarah Howe
Across five collections, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has won admirers for its distinctive mix of the humourous and the cerebral, a voice the London Re…
5 years, 8 months ago
Javier Cercas and Gaby Wood: ‘Lord of All the Dead’
‘This past is a dimension of the present, without which the present is mutilated.’
In Lord of all the Dead, Javier Cercas plunges back into his family…
5 years, 9 months ago
To Leave and to Be Left Behind: Five Dials launch with Sophie Mackintosh, Rachael Allen, Bridget Minamore and Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Five Dials 57, ‘To Leave and to Be Left Behind’, explores the imaginative space of the journey – where it can take us and how it can change us. Guest…
5 years, 9 months ago
Richard McGuire and Dave McKean: Home
In conversation with Dave McKean, Richard McGuire talks about his graphic novel, Here, a book-length expansion of his groundbreaking 1989 sequence of…
5 years, 9 months ago
Chloe Diski and Deborah Friedell on Jenny Diski
To celebrate the publication of Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?, a new selection of Jenny Diski's LRB essays, chosen and introduced by Mar…
5 years, 9 months ago
Deborah Levy, Juliet Jacques and Jennifer Hodgson: Ann Quin
Two of Ann Quin’s admirers, novelist and essayist Deborah Levy and writer and critic Juliet Jacques, will be joined in conversation about her life an…
5 years, 9 months ago
Morgan Parker and Georgina Lawton: ‘Magical Negro’
There are more beautiful things than Beyoncé (Corsair) won Morgan Parker a wide UK readership; Magical Negro takes and expands on the achievement of …
5 years, 9 months ago
Lorna Goodison and Linton Kwesi Johnson
Writing on Lorna Goodison’s poetry, Derek Walcott asks ‘What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? Joy…
5 years, 10 months ago