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) Danny Dorling & Arianne Shahvisi: The Next Crisis
If the first quarter of the 21st Century has been rich in one thing, it is anxiety. Pandemics, asteroids, climate change, global instability, the cost of living, tsunamis, migration – the list of thin...Show More
3) Lamorna Ash & James Butler: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever
In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever (Bloomsbury) Lamorna Ash, author of the coming-of-age memoir cum anthropological study of the Cornish fishing industry Dark, Salt, Clear, visits Evangelical youth fe...Show More
4) Jamieson Webster & Katherine Angel: On Breathing
In On Breathing (Peninsula Press) Jamieson Webster, a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and part-time faculty member at The New School for Social Research, draws on psychoanalytic theory t...Show More
5) Laleh Khalili & David Wearing: Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, looks behind the glossy surface promises of frictionless trade and limitless growth to uncover the hidden stories behind late capi...Show More
6) Sheila Fitzpatrick & Owen Hatherley: The Death of Stalin
In the first of a new series from Old Street in which historian focus on a single moment of history, pre-eminent English-language expert on the Soviet Union Sheila Fitzpatrick gives a detailed and dar...Show More
7) Laura Beatty & Edmund de Waal: Pear Trees
Pear Trees (Hazel Press) is a short story by Laura Beatty, the Ondaatje Prize-shortlisted novelist and biographer. Set in an Albanian mountain village, Pear Trees blends folklore and ecology to pose t...Show More
8) T.S. Eliot at Faber
On 23 April 1925, T.S. Eliot was officially invited by Geoffrey Faber to join the newly founded publishing house of Faber & Gwyer. It was to prove the most momentous appointment in the history of 20th...Show More
9) Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
In William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love (4th Estate) – ‘an impassioned magnum opus celebrating Blake’s star-shaken genius by discovering his lineage everywhere in the author’s own crystal cabine...Show More
10) Sasha Debevec-McKenney & Jack Underwood: Joy is My Middle Name
Sasha Debevec-McKenney’s debut collection Joy Is My Middle Name (Fitzcarraldo) packs a lot in – humour, heartbreak, politics, sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism, pop culture and mu...Show More