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The Art of Short Fiction: Helen Simpson and Marina Warner
Marina Warner wears many hats, as cultural critic, mythographer, historian and essayist, but one of her best-fitting hats is her writer of short fict…
10 years, 5 months ago
Edna O’Brien talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her new novel ‘The Little Red Chairs’
A new novel from Edna O'Brien is without question a major literary event, and *The Little Red Chairs* (Faber) is her first for a decade. A hunted war…
10 years, 5 months ago
1606: James Shapiro and Charles Nicholl
Ten years after the publication of his highly acclaimed and prize-winning 1599 James Shapiro moves the Shakespeare story on to 1606, the year of *Kin…
10 years, 5 months ago
Joanna Walsh and Claire-Louise Bennett: Hotel x Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett and Joanna Walsh met at the London Review Bookshop to read from and discuss their new books, Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions) and H…
10 years, 5 months ago
Ferrante Fever: Ann Goldstein, Joanna Biggs, Lisa Appignanesi and Alex Clark
Elena Ferrante's translator, Ann Goldstein, was joined by Joanna Biggs, Lisa Appignanesi and Alex Clark to discuss the appeal and mystery of the enig…
10 years, 7 months ago
Is There Such A Thing As Italian Cuisine?
Dino Joannides, consummate food fanatic, bon viveur and author chaired a panel of writers and chefs to discuss the question: 'Is there such a thing a…
10 years, 7 months ago
Trans: Juliet Jacques with Chloe Aridjis
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a Guardian column. …
10 years, 7 months ago
Brian Dillon and Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin
Seventy-five years ago, on 26 September 1940, perhaps the 20th century's greatest cultural critic died in a small town on the Spanish border as he at…
10 years, 7 months ago
Danny Dorling and Dawn Foster on inequality
Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University and, according to Simon Jenkins 'geographer royal by appointment to the left' was at th…
10 years, 7 months ago
Alexandra Harris and Frances Spalding: 'Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies'
Alexandra Harris, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool University, was at the shop to talk about her latest book Weatherland (Thames an…
10 years, 7 months ago