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) Emily Callaci & Helen Charman: Wages for Housework
In Wages for Housework (Allen Lane) Emily Callaci, professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells the story of a movement that shot to prominence in the 1970s, distilling a century...Show More
3) Oluwaseun Olayiwola & Camille Ralphs: Strange Beach
In his debut collection Strange Beach – the very first title in Fitzcarraldo’s new poetry series – poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola finds the body to be a porous landscape across which exist...Show More
4) Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter: On Leigh Bowery
From his arrival in London in 1981 – clutching a suitcase and sewing machine – to his death from AIDS on New Year’s Eve 1994, Leigh Bowery – the man described by Boy George as ‘modern art on legs’ – l...Show More
5) Deborah Levy & Adam Thirlwell: The Position of Spoons
In The Position of Spoons novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy invites the reader to share in her interior world, mapping her own life through the lives and works of the artists and writers ...Show More
6) Matthew Hollis & Norman McBeath: The Seafarer
Matthew Hollis has reworked the classic Anglo-Saxon poem The Seafarer into a poem desperately relevant for our times: in a society threatened by climate change and the coming-loose of social bonds, Ho...Show More
7) Carol Mavor & Lauren Elkin: Serendipity
In Serendipity (Reaktion) Carol Mavor uses Anne Frank’s journal, discovered in the Secret Annex after the Second World War, Emily Dickinson’s poems, scribbled on salvaged envelopes hidden in a drawer,...Show More
8) Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s Purgatorio
In his 2014 Dante’s Inferno poet and provocateur Philip Terry moved the action to Essex University. His Purgatorio (Carcanet) transports us to nearby Mersea Island, where Ted Berrigan leads our author...Show More
9) Fitzcarraldo at 10: Kate Briggs, Brian Dillon & Helen Charman
It’s hard to believe that Fitzcarraldo Editions has only existed for ten years; during that short time, they have published a remarkable selection of books (gathering four Nobel Prizes between them), ...Show More
10) Tariq Ali & Oliver Eagleton: You Can’t Please All
In You Can’t Please All (Verso), a sort of sequel to his seminal 1987 memoir Street-fighting Years, Tariq Ali continues the story of a life lived flamboyantly and magnificently on the Left. Pen portra...Show More