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Four Hundred Years of Quarantine
Erin Maglaque talks to Thomas Jones about the lockdown imposed by the city of Florence in January 1631 in response to a plague outbreak, the similari…
6 years ago
Wash Your Hands, Again
Following his piece for the LRB about Covid-19, Rupert Beale talks to Thomas Jones about what the novel coronavirus is, how well countries are dealin…
6 years, 1 month ago
Richard Lloyd Parry: Akihito and the Sorrows of Japan
Akihito, who abdicated in April, was a paradoxical figure: a hereditary monarch, the son of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, strictly barred from polit…
6 years, 1 month ago
Meehan Crist: Is it OK to have children?
Given what we know about the future of the planet, is having children a matter of consumer choice, of political conviction, or something an authority…
6 years, 1 month ago
Colin Burrow: Fiction and the Age of Lies
The line between making a fiction and telling a lie has been blurry at least since Homer, and liars – from Odysseus and Iago to Austen’s Wickham and …
6 years, 2 months ago
Alan Bennett’s Diary for 2019
Alan Bennett reads his Diary for 2019, with a few little extra bits.
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6 years, 3 months ago
The LRB at 40: Jeremy Harding, Adam Shatz and Nikita Lalwani
In the last of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Jeremy Harding and Adam Shatz talk to Nikita Lalwani about their work for the p…
6 years, 5 months ago
The LRB at 40: Nell Dunn, Tessa Hadley and Joanna Biggs on women in fiction
As part of a series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Nell Dunn and Tessa Hadley talk to Joanna Biggs, one of the LRB's editors, about fi…
6 years, 5 months ago
The LRB at 40: Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair on London
As part of our series of events marking the 40th anniversary of the LRB, longtime contributors Rosemary Hill and Iain Sinclair talked to the LRB’s di…
6 years, 5 months ago
The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism
As part of our series of events marking the LRB's 40th anniversary, Katrina Forrester and William Davies discuss political crisis, and in particular …
6 years, 5 months ago