London Review Bookshop Podcast

Apr 09 2025 600 ep. 60 mins 3.5k
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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 https://lrb.me/bookshopeventspod
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Zarina Muhammad & Gabrielle de la Puente with Olivia Sudjic: Poor Artists

Apr 09 2025 62 mins  
In Poor Artists (Particular Books) Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente (AKA The White Pube), explore the bizarre world of contemporary art through their protagonist Quest Talukdar. In surreal encounters with other artists, Quest learns profound truths about money and power, and must decide whether she cares more about success or staying true to herself. Blending st

Karl Ove Knausgaard & Helen Charman: The Third Realm

Apr 02 2025 56 mins  
The Third Realm is the next instalment of the series Karl Ove Knausgaard began with The Morning Star and continued in The Wolves of Eternity; like its two precursors, it is a breathtaking exploration of ordinary lives on the cusp of irrevocable change, ‘re-enchanting the cosmos with those beguiling secrets science had stolen from it’ (in the words of Th

Helen Castor & Mary Wellesley: The Eagle & the Hart

Mar 26 2025 64 mins  
‘If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one is’, writes Andrew O’Hagan of Helen Castor’s The Eagle and the Hart (Allen Lane). ‘The dumbfounding, delusional, narcissistic King Richard; the white-knuckle ride of Henry IV, dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy. I feel these men could have been ripped from today’s headlines.’ Casto

Legacy Russell & Rene Matić: Black Meme

Mar 19 2025 49 mins  
In Black Meme (Verso) Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media. Through imagery, memory, and technology, Black Meme shows us how images of Blackness have always been central to our understanding o

Thurston Moore & Jack Underwood: Sonic Life

Mar 12 2025 75 mins  
In his memoir Sonic Life (Faber), Thurston Moore recounts a life that has been defined by music. Following a childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany in the early 1960s, his infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave led him to move to New York City, where he immersed himself in the underground music and art scenes. In 1981 he co-founded the band Sonic Yo

Rachel Kushner & Adam Thirlwell: Creation Lake

Mar 05 2025 60 mins  
Described by Mick Herron as ‘seductive, entrancing, and quite off the wall’, Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake (Cape) reaffirms her position as one of America’s most exciting and accomplished writers of fiction. In a reimagining of the spy novel for an age of ecological crisis, Kushner leads us to a remote Neanderthal cave in rural France where the enigm

Iona Heath & Sally Potter: John Berger – Ways of Learning

Feb 26 2025 68 mins  
In ‘a wonderful book about looking and learning’ (Gavin Francis) retired GP Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger’s work and friendship had on her working life as a doctor in a deprived London borough. Five decades of engagement with Berger’s work and twenty years of friendship with the man himself made her, she is convinced, a better doctor. Heath was in conve

Michelle Tea & Jeremy Atherton Lin: SLUTS

Feb 19 2025 68 mins  
Taking us from the awkwardness of middle school to the transcendence of a sex club, SLUTS: Anthology (Cipher Press) presents a diverse collection of writing – fiction and non-fiction, pro and con, philosophical and compulsive – exploring the eternally controversial word. Whether an insult or badge of honour, an identity or a state of mind, SLUTS engages some

Vigdis Hjorth & Lauren Oyler: If Only

Feb 12 2025 57 mins  
If Only – first published in Norway in 2001, and now brought into English by Charlotte Barslund – is viewed in Norway as Vigdis Hjorth’s masterpiece, a story of the devastation wreaked on one woman’s life by an ill-advised affair. Hjorth (whose other novels in English include Is Mother Dead?, Will and Testament and Long Live the Post Horn!) is in co

Helen Charman & Lola Olufemi: Mother State

Feb 05 2025 60 mins  
In Mother State (Allen Lane), Helen Charman uses this provocative insight to write a new history of Britain and Northern Ireland. Beginning with Women's Liberation and ending with austerity, the book follows mothers' fights for an alternative future. Here we see a world where motherhood is not a restrictive identity but a state of possibility. ‘Mother’ ceases to