
The 3 Best The LRB Podcast Episodes
1) How do you change things?
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks to Adam Shatz about the intellectual and historical background to the Black Lives Matter movement, and why she’s optimistic that the current protests might bring change.F...Show More
2) James Wood: These Etonians
James Wood recalls his time at the college, with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and others.Read more by James Wood in the LRB: https://lrb.me/jameswoodpodSubscribe to the LRB from just ...Show More
3) Picasso’s Guernica Revisited
In his 2011 Winter Lecture at the British Museum, T.J. Clark shows how the painting of Guernica in May and June 1937 changed the way Picasso imagined space. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...Show More
4) On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)
For the best part of a decade, a new type of anti-systemic, nationalistic politics has been emerging from different corners of the online world. In Britain, this has united with older forms of cultura...Show More
5) Lessons from the Peace Process
Adam is joined by Robert Malley to discuss the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, and the long history of the peace process, in which Malley has been involved on behalf of several US administrations....Show More
6) Why should we listen to Amanda Knox?
It's nearly eighteen years since Amanda Knox was arrested on suspicion of murdering her housemate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, and more than ten since she was finally exonerated of the crime. She has ...Show More
7) On Politics: The Death of the Conservative Party?
In its nearly two hundred years of existence the Conservative Party has survived through a combination of protean adaptability and ruthlessness, not least in its willingness to change leaders. Yet und...Show More
8) How to Write Like Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard ‘did more with less than any crime writer I can think of’ J. Robert Lennon wrote in the latest issue of the LRB. Leonard was born in New Orleans in 1925 and by the time he died in 2013 ...Show More
9) On Politics: Labour's Problems
When Keir Starmer brought Labour back to government last year with a majority of 174, many talked about two or even three terms in power. But over fourteen months the Prime Minister has run into numer...Show More
10) Selling the Manosphere
The manosphere, Emily Witt writes in a recent piece for the LRB, is the ‘online network of male supremacist websites, influencers and YouTube channels’ whose popularity has exploded in the last fiftee...Show More