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Jacqueline Rose: Rosa Luxemburg and Marilyn Monroe
Jacqueline Rose draws parallels between revolutionary 19th-century socialist Rosa Luxemburg and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. She explains how each …
12 years, 7 months ago
Colm Tóibín: In Conversation
Author, essayist and poet Colm Tóibín is one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. He discusses his life and work, including his recent book The Test…
12 years, 7 months ago
At the Movies
Michael Wood reconsiders ‘Cleopatra’ – its expense, its quarrelling stars, its length, its success – on the release of a restored print for the film’…
12 years, 8 months ago
‘Bedsit Disco Queen’
Lavinia Greenlaw tells the story of singer Tracey Thorn’s rise from bedroom rehearsals and an ad in the NME to indie label Cherry Red (who also signe…
12 years, 8 months ago
Emily Davison, Modern Martyr
Marina Warner explores Emily Davison’s legacy as the suffragettes’ first martyr in a talk given at the inaugural Wilding Festival at St George’s Bloo…
12 years, 9 months ago
Andrew O'Hagan: The Paris Hilton Heist
Andrew O’Hagan tells the story of Alexis Neiers and the rest of the ‘Bling Ring’ who stole from Paris Hilton in order to be more like Paris Hilton.
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12 years, 9 months ago
Is Wagner bad for us?
On the centenary of Wagner’s birth, Nicholas Spice asks in his Winter Lecture at the British Museum how his music works on us and what this tells us …
13 years ago
David Runciman: American Democracy
David Runciman discusses the impossibility and persistence of the US political system in the LRB Winter Lecture delivered at the British Museum in 20…
13 years ago
Noam Chomsky: 65 Years in the Middle East
In his 2013 Edward W. Said lecture Noam Chomsky reflects on 65 years of violence in the Middle East.
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13 years ago
Adam Phillips: On Tantrums
Adam Phillips considers the sadomasochism of childhood and the pleasures and pains of tantrums.
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13 years, 1 month ago