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Voices for the Voiceless: Elena Poniatowska and Michael Schmidt
Elena Poniatowska’s work, in both fiction and journalism, has always been devoted to giving a voice to the voiceless, the disenfranchised and the opp…
11 years ago
Pedigree Mongrel: An Evening with Jonathan Meades
Writer and film-maker Jonathan Meades joined us at the Bookshop to present and discuss *Pedigree Mongrel* (Test Centre), a new album composed of spec…
11 years, 1 month ago
Making It Up: Kirsty Gunn and Deborah Levy
Short stories don't have to be like short stories. They can be experiences, visitations, slices of events or part revelations of a truth or a lie. Ki…
11 years, 2 months ago
Katharine Norbury and Blake Morrison in Conversation
Katharine Norbury's affecting memoir The Fish Ladder (Bloomsbury) deals with grief, recovery and the redemptive power of stories and journeys. Abando…
11 years, 2 months ago
Patrick Cockburn on the Rise of Islamic State
Patrick Cockburn, regular contributor to the LRB and Middle East correspondent for the Independent, is, according to Seymour Hersh, 'Quite simply, th…
11 years, 3 months ago
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange: Robert Irwin in conversation with Marina Warner
Islamic scholar Robert Irwin joined us at the Bookshop in discussion with mythographer Marina Warner about a groundbreaking new translation of Tales …
11 years, 3 months ago
The White Review Presents an Evening with Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, most recently Summer of Hate, and two books of art and cultural criticism. The New York Observer describes …
11 years, 3 months ago
An Evening with James Ellroy
James Ellroy’s hardboiled, idiosyncratic explorations of Los Angeles police corruption and midcentury Washington power politics have earned him a wor…
11 years, 5 months ago
Rising Ground: Place Writing Now
Writing about place – a sub-genre of travel writing that subverts it by being about staying put, rather than moving – has been enjoying an extraordin…
11 years, 5 months ago
Some Luck: Jane Smiley
When I was in eighth grade my history teacher wrote on my report card: “She only does what she wants to do.” She thought that was a bad thing, and it…
11 years, 6 months ago