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London Review Bookshop Podcast

Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more. Find out about our upcoming events here More from the Bookshop: Discover our author of the month, book of the week and more: ⁠⁠https://lrb.me/bkshppod⁠⁠ From the LRB: Subscribe to the LRB: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/subsbkshppod⁠ Close Readings podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/crbkshppod⁠ LRB Audiobooks: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/audiobooksbkshppod⁠ Bags, binders and more at the LRB Store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/storebkshppod⁠ Get in touch: [email protected]

Episodes

Christopher Clark & Marina Warner: A Scandal in Königsberg

20 Apr 2026

56m

Ian Patterson & Ali Smith: Books – A Manifesto

18 Apr 2026

1h 2m

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Building a personal library serves as an archive of a life, transforming the act of reading into a fundamental component of human reality. Ian Patterson, author of Books: A Manifesto, argues that the systematic underfunding of cultural institutions represents an ideological assault on the imagination, reducing humanity...

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Episodes

Christopher Clark & Marina Warner: A Scandal in Königsberg

Ian Patterson & Ali Smith: Books – A Manifesto

Stephen Grosz & Helen MacDonald: Love’s Labour

Ruby Tandoh & Olivia Sudjic: All Consuming

Lorna Goodison & Fawzia Muradali Kane: Dante’s Inferno

Michael Symmons Roberts & Hannah Westland on John Burnside

Miriam Toews & Octavia Bright: A Truce That Is Not Peace

Camilla Grudova & Jennifer Hodgson: Ágota Kristóf’s ‘I Don’t Care’

Lauren Elkin & Lou Stoppard on Simone de Beauvoir

Ariel at 60: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Lavinia Greenlaw & Richard Scott

Edna Bonhomme & Rachel Connolly: A History of the World in Six Plagues

Andy Beckett & Melissa Benn: Can the Left Save Labour?

Peter Gizzi & Anthony Joseph: Fierce Elegy

Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife

Marina Warner & James Butler: Sanctuary

Samuel Fisher & Helen Charman: Migraine

Kim Hyesoon & Will Harris: Autobiography of Death

Nell Stevens & Olivia Laing: The Original

Liliane Lijn & Jennifer Higgie: Liquid Reflections

Kathryn Scanlan & Emily LaBarge: Aug 9 – Fog