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‘No, I’m not getting married!’
Susan Pedersen talks to Joanna Biggs about Shelagh Delaney and her landmark 1958 play, A Taste of Honey.
Read Susan Pedersen on Shelagh Delaney in the…
5 years, 10 months ago
On Georges Simenon
John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about Georges Simenon, whose output was so prodigious that even he didn’t know how many books he wrote.
Find lin…
5 years, 10 months ago
Reopening the NHS
Sonia Gandhi and Rupert Beale, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, talk to Thomas Jones about the ways Covid-19 can affect the nervous system,…
5 years, 10 months ago
Semi-Recumbent in Bournemouth
Andrew O’Hagan talks to Thomas Jones about the friendship between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and the time they spent together in Bournem…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Theory Truce
Michael Wood talks to Adam Shatz about critical theory, its origins, developments and various diversions, and where it stands today. The conversation…
5 years, 11 months ago
This Bad Business
Colm Tóibín talks to Thomas Jones about the breakdown of Elizabeth Hardwick’s marriage to Robert Lowell, and its literary consequences.
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5 years, 11 months ago
The Idea of the Island
Mary Wellesley talks to Joanna Biggs about islands, blessed and not so blessed, from Homer to the Fyre Festival.
Read more by Mary Wellesley in the LR…
5 years, 11 months ago
Beauvoir and Me
Joanna Biggs talks to Thomas Jones about the life of Simone de Beauvoir.
Further reading on Beauvoir in the LRB:
Joanna Biggs: https://lrb.me/biggsdebe…
5 years, 11 months ago
On the Ward
Lana Spawls talks to Thomas Jones about working on a paediatric ward during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ways hospitals have changed in response to…
6 years ago
In the Lab
Rupert Beale talks again to Thomas Jones about his work at the Francis Crick Institute, where he’s helping to set up a testing lab for Covid-19. He t…
6 years ago