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Colm Tóibín: Alone in Venice
Colm Tóibín reads his diary from November 2020, about visiting Venice during the pandemic.
Read the piece here: https://lrb.me/aloneinvenicepod
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4 years, 7 months ago
Rosemary Hill: Populist Palatial
In the first of four summer readings visiting different places in Europe, Rosemary Hill explores the history of London's West End.
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4 years, 7 months ago
On Elizabeth Bowen
David Trotter talks to Joanne O’Leary about the novels and stories of Elizabeth Bowen, from her weird families and idiosyncrasies of style, to her ma…
4 years, 8 months ago
Stephen Frears on Hollywood
Stephen Frears talks to Andrew O’Hagan about making movies in America, to mark the publication of a new collection of LRB essays on Hollywood. He des…
4 years, 8 months ago
On Cheating in Sport
John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about ‘visible’ cheating in sport, that is, the kind which is against the rules but within the ethos of the gam…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Assassination of President Moïse
Pooja Bhatia talks to Thomas Jones about the assassination of President Moïse in Haiti, the recent history of US involvement in the country, and the …
4 years, 8 months ago
The Problems with Building Wind Farms
James Meek talks to Thomas Jones about the connected fates of two wind tower factories, one in Scotland, the other in Vietnam, and asks why the deter…
4 years, 9 months ago
On Simone Weil
Toril Moi talks to Joanna Biggs about the French philosopher Simone Weil, whose short and uncompromising life became a workshop for her revolutionary…
4 years, 9 months ago
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Deborah Friedell talks to Thomas Jones about the Rosenbergs, from their early years on the Lower East Side of New York to their executions for conspi…
4 years, 9 months ago
On the Irish Border
Niamh Gallagher talks to Thomas Jones about the history of the Irish border, from its origins in the 1920s to today, the way it has shaped Irish poli…
4 years, 9 months ago