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On Vassily Grossman - Yekaterina Korotkova-Grossman and Robert Chandler - World Liter
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, described by Le Monde as the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century, was regarded as so dangerous to the Soviet …
15 years, 10 months ago
On Exile and Language - World Literature Weekend 2010
This event took place in association with English PEN, which exists to promote literature and its understanding, uphold writers' freedoms around the …
15 years, 10 months ago
Traduction en Direct - World Literature Weekend 2010
How can the same thing be said in a different language, when the language carries the assumptions of a whole culture with it? How do you balance spir…
15 years, 10 months ago
Yang Lian with Brian Holton and Iain Sinclair - World Literature Weekend 2010
Yang Lian's poems collapse distances by combining a deep attention to the particular with the allusiveness of classical Chinese poetry, in which a wo…
15 years, 10 months ago
Alain Mabanckou with Helen Stevenson - World Literature Weekend 2010
An important champion of francophone literature, Mabanckou is both a writer engage, and a very engaging man. Teaching at the time in the French liter…
15 years, 10 months ago
Elias Khoury in Conversation with Jeremy Harding - World Literature Weekend 2010
Edward Said described Elias Khoury as an artist who gives 'voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identit…
15 years, 10 months ago
Peter Campbell and Julian Bell
Julian Bell and Peter Campbell talked about things that painters can and can't do, in particular about the relationship painters have had to old art …
16 years, 1 month ago
Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthy
In conversation with the novelist Tom McCarthy, Jonathan Lethem read from Chronic City and discussed, inter alia, Manhattan's virtuality, the inspira…
16 years, 4 months ago
Alan Bennett - The Habit of Art
With his new play about Auden and Britten, The Habit of Art, playing to packed houses at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett visited the Bookshop to r…
16 years, 5 months ago
Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-
LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers, and contributors Jeremy Harding and John Lanchester, discussed the pleasures and pitfalls of writing family histories, u…
16 years, 5 months ago