London Review Bookshop Podcast
1) Leonora Carrington: Marina Warner and Chloe Aridjis
On the publication of the first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short fiction,The Debutante and Other Stories (Silver Press) and the republication of her memoir Down Below in this centenary y...Show More
2) Marie-Laure Bernadac & Lauren Elkin: Knife-Woman
To mark the publication of Knife Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois (Yale) its author, curator and art historian Marie-Laure Bernadac was in conversation about the life and work of Louise Bourgeois w...Show More
3) Jeanette Winterson: One Aladdin, Two Lamps
Author of thirteen novels, several collections of short fiction, memoirs, books for children and screenplays, Jeanette Winterson is one of our greatest and most accomplished storytellers. In her lates...Show More
4) Michèle Roberts & Alice Blackhurst: French Cooking for Two
Michèle Roberts discusses the follow-up to Bookshop bestseller French Cooking for One with Alice Blackhurst. You can buy a copy of French Cooking for Two from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more a...Show More
5) Joe Sacco & Skye Arundhati Thomas: The Once and Future Riot
In The Once and Future Riot (Cape) cartoonist Joe Sacco turns to the communal riots that rocked Uttar Pradesh in 2013. With works such as Palestine, Safe Area Goradze, The Fixer, War Junkie and Footno...Show More
6) Isabella Hammad & Laleh Khalili: Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
Ghassan Kanafani, born in Acre in 1936, displaced by the Nakba in 1948 and assassinated in Beirut in 1972, was one of the leading Palestinian writers of his generation. In an event to mark a new editi...Show More
7) Holly Smith & Owen Hatherley: Up In the Air
In Up in the Air (Verso) architectural historian Holly Smith tells the story of Britain's multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the present day, charting how at different times it became...Show More
8) Anne Enright & Clair Wills: Attention
Attention (Jonathan Cape) collects for the first time Booker prize-winning novelist Anne Enright’s non-fiction. These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, taking us from Dublin to Galway, Ca...Show More
9) Julia Blackburn & Sarah Clegg: Remedies
In Remedies (Hazel Press) playwright, poet, novelist, biographer, historian and much else besides Julia Blackburn meditates on the images, amulets and incantations that have been used to cure illnesse...Show More
10) Chiara Barzini & Olivia Laing: Aqua
The Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 233-mile engineering masterwork, carries water from the Owens Valley, across the desert to a barren corner of California. Without it, the city of Los Angeles and the film i...Show More