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From Fulton to Miami-Dade
Randall Kennedy and Mike Davis talk to Adam Shatz about the results of the US elections. They consider the achievement of Stacey Abrams in Georgia, w…
5 years, 5 months ago
On Nabokov
Patricia Lockwood talks to Joanne O’Leary about being possessed by Vladimir Nabokov, reading Lolita as a teenage girl, the diagnostic value of Bend S…
5 years, 5 months ago
Catholics and Lumpen-billionaires
Adam Shatz talks to Mike Davis about some of the underlying and long-term political shifts at play in next week’s US elections. They discuss both tra…
5 years, 5 months ago
A History of Country Music
Alex Abramovich talks to Thomas Jones about the history of country from Jimmie Rodgers to Lil Nas X, by way of Dolly Parton (and Eddie Van Halen), an…
5 years, 5 months ago
Really Hot Hands
To mark the publication of the latest LRB Collection of essays, about sport, David Runciman, on loan from Talking Politics, talks to Ben Markovits ab…
5 years, 6 months ago
Aeschylus’ Ghosts
Emily Wilson talks to Thomas Jones about three new translations of the Oresteia. They discuss what the texts of the tragedies may tell us about the s…
5 years, 6 months ago
No Wave Feminism
Jenny Turner talks to Joanna Biggs about the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement, the loneliness of feminist work, and the seemingly unavoidab…
5 years, 6 months ago
400 Million Guns
Deborah Friedell talks to Thomas Jones about the origins, and origin myths, of the National Rifle Association, how it spends its money, and why it's …
5 years, 7 months ago
Katherine Rundell: Consider the Greenland Shark
Katherine Rundell reads her study of the Greenland shark, which can live for 500 years.
You can find all the pieces in Katherine Rundell's series of a…
5 years, 7 months ago
Covidology
Rupert Beale talks to Thomas Jones about Covid-19 vaccine candidates, and reasons not to rush them; how worried we should be about reported cases of …
5 years, 7 months ago