Join us from anywhere in the world to watch to your favourite authors in conversation – and ask them questions yourself – via your laptop, phone or tablet. Where possible, we’ll also have signed copies of their books available for sale at the Bookshop, and through our online store.
Out of a mixture of gratitude and admiration, we turn our shop, twice a week or so, into a miniature auditorium in which authors talk about and read from their work, meet their readers, and engage in lively debate about the burning topics of the day. Find out here who’s scheduled to appear.
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Audio and Video
Missed one of our sold-out events, or longing to revisit an evening you enjoyed? This site includes a healthy selection of audio, video and pictures from previous events in the Bookshop. Browse through our calendar, or scroll down for a full listing. You can also subscribe to our events podcast via iTunes or RSS.
LRB Screen at Home is back! With a line-up of special guests including Luc Sante, Sir Willard White, Anne Diebel, Philip Hoare, Marina Warner, Alice Goodman, Geoff Dyer and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.
Scholar, musician, activist, raconteur and polemicist, Edward Said was one of the most celebrated and controversial intellectuals of the last century. Drawing extensively on interviews and archival research, professor Timothy Brennan provides ...
Born in London in 1979 Gwendoline Riley has established herself as one of the most significant young writers working in English today. Her latest novel, My Phantoms (Granta) is a devastating and at times devastatingly funny account of the ...
Chris Power’s short story collection Mothers was shortlisted for several literary prizes. His first novel A Lonely Man (Faber) is a powerful, menacing exploration of the nature of truth, fabrication and identity. ‘If you're a fan of ...
Already well-known for her novels – Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers, The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner has over the past two decades been writing essays, reviews and reportage as insightful and surprising as her fiction. In The Hard Crowd ...
Described by Claire Louise Bennett as ‘lithe and ambitious’ and by Toby Litt as ‘a miracle in book form’, Isobel Wohl’s debut Cold New Climate (Weatherglass) is likely to be one of the most talked about novels of 2021. Encompassing the ...
There's nothing quite like the experience of meeting the author of a favourite book. But if you weren't able to make it to one of our readings, don't despair! Explore the sights and sounds of events you may have missed – or want to
revisit – below.
Born into Alexandria’s Sephardic Jewish community and now resident in New York, André Aciman is best known for his novels, in particular Call Me by Your Name. His latest, Homo Irrealis (Faber and Faber) is a collection of essays on subjects ...
As the nights close in, what could be better than to gather around the (virtual) hearth and consider multi-award winning poet Robin Robertson's shadow-wracked new collection, Grimoire (Picador). ...
London, the Capital of world capitalism, a centre of global finance and a place of immense wealth and privilege, has an often unacknowledged red underbelly, stretching from Herbert Morrison in the 1930s ...
‘I feel like human language is just a wider branch of a kind of
multi-species bio-semiotics, where every species or being has its own
language – I don’t really believe in human consciousness as being the
pinnacle of the hierarchy of ...
‘It’s good that we now have angry black women mastering their anger sufficiently to write in a way that makes people understand why this particular human being, and this group of human beings, suffers under the weight of so much ...
Novelist, memoirist, essayist and contributing editor to the LRB John Lanchester sets out to chill you to the virtual bone with his first ever collection of short fiction Reality and Other Stories (Faber). As if modern life weren’t unsettling ...
‘The thing that’s catching my ear, eye and mind is always this sense
that this well-made object is also falling apart, or is shaking itself
to pieces in some ways.’
Three-times Booker-nominated author and LRB editor-at-large Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel centres on the powerful friendship between James and Tully, fuelled by teenage rebellion and the unforgettable soundtrack of late 80s British music. ...
Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book was Pet, a novel for young adults that ...
Five Dials 57, ‘To Leave and to Be Left Behind’, explores the imaginative space of the journey – where it can take us and how it can change us. Guest-edited by Sophie Mackintosh, it brings together a range of playful, intimate and ...
