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Saidiya Hartman and Lola Olufemi: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
At the beginning of the 20th Century, the first emancipated generation of black women in the USA were obliged, sometimes enabled and often hindered i…
6 years, 5 months ago
Jorge Galán and Mark Dowd: November
Jorge Galán’s extraordinary non-fiction novel Noviembre, now published in an English translation by Jason Wilson as November, recounts the horrifying…
6 years, 5 months ago
Kathleen Jamie and Philip Hoare: Surfacing
In her latest book ‘Surfacing’ (Sort of Books), poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie explores what emerges: from the earth, from memory and from the mind…
6 years, 6 months ago
LRB at 40: Jeremy Harding, Nikita Lalwani and Adam Shatz
Jeremy Harding and Adam Shatz discussed shared preoccupations including decolonisation and orientalism, Israel-Palestine, 20th-century music, and Fra…
6 years, 6 months ago
LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs
Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley discuss fictional representations of women’s everyday lives with the LRB’s Joanna Biggs, as part of a series of events cel…
6 years, 6 months ago
LRB at 40: William Davies and Katrina Forrester
On Wednesday 16 October, William Davies and Katrina Forrester discussed shared preoccupations including the subjects of their recent books, Nervous S…
6 years, 6 months ago
LRB at 40: Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair
Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talk to the LRB's digital editor, Sam Kinchin-Smith, about their shared preoccupations with London, as written about …
6 years, 6 months ago
Against Memoir: Michelle Tea and Juliet Jacques
In Against Memoir (And Other Stories), Michelle Tea takes us through the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in America. Via a series of ess…
6 years, 6 months ago
Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max Porter, Emily Berry
Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and later bec…
6 years, 7 months ago
Ian Penman and Jennifer Hodgson: It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track
Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-gen…
6 years, 7 months ago