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On Exile: Richard Sennett and Sewell Chan
Professor Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays Richard Sennett explores dis…
8 years, 4 months ago
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Reni Eddo-Lodge and Sarah Shin on Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at…
8 years, 4 months ago
My House of Sky: Hetty Saunders, Robert Macfarlane and John Fanshawe on J.A. Baker
My House of Sky (Little Toller) tells the hitherto largely unknown story of J.A. Baker, author of nature writing classic The Peregrine. Working with …
8 years, 5 months ago
Mary Beard: Women & Power
The two parts of Mary Beard’s latest book were originally given as lectures in the LRB’s prestigious Winter Lecture series, and subsequently appeared…
8 years, 5 months ago
David Harvey and Owen Hatherley
Marx’s Das Kapital, published in three volumes between 1867 and 1883, exercised a profound influence on the history and politics of the 20th century,…
8 years, 5 months ago
Simon Critchley & Juliet Jacques: What We Think About When We Think About Football
What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender, family identity,…
8 years, 5 months ago
Winter: Ali Smith and Olivia Laing
Following her Man Booker shortlisted Autumn, Ali Smith was at the shop to present its sequel Winter, (Hamish Hamilton), the second in a quartet of no…
8 years, 5 months ago
The Last London: Iain Sinclair and Stewart Lee
Iain Sinclair has been writing about London for most of his adult life, and if any of us can even begin to understand this peculiar sort of city that…
8 years, 6 months ago
After Kathy Acker: Chris Kraus and Juliet Jacques
Twenty years after Kathy Acker's untimely death, Chris Kraus has provided the first full biography of the avant-garde artist, writer and counter-cult…
8 years, 6 months ago
Lecture On The History Of Skywriting: a reading by Anne Carson
A very special evening at the Bookshop poet, playwright and translator Anne Carson. With Robert Currie and Ben Whishaw, Anne performed Lecture On The…
8 years, 6 months ago