The Greensill Scandal
Peter Geoghegan talks to Thomas Jones about the Greensill lobbying scandal, the refurbishment of Boris Johnson’s flat, the unhealthy relationship between successive British governments and the private...
4 Touko 20211h
Blind Spots
Jesse McCarthy talks to Adam Shatz about his studies of Black diasporic culture, from Juan de Pareja to Audre Lorde, and his critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations. Find related pieces in...
28 Huhti 20211h 1min
Abbess, Editor, CEO
Irina Dumitrescu talks to Thomas Jones about female authorship in early medieval England, and how the power and freedom that (some) women had in the eighth century challenges the idea of linear social...
20 Huhti 202141min
The Cargo Ship Business
John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about his experience of being on a cargo ship blocked from entering the Suez Canal in 1967, his subsequent journey round the Cape of Good Hope, and the modern-day...
13 Huhti 202137min
Diane Williams on the Short Story
Diane Williams talks to Thomas Jones about her short stories, and reads her latest two published in the LRB. Find more stories by Diane Williams in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/williamspod Subscribe t...
6 Huhti 202124min
What is the UbuVerse?
Gill Partington and Thomas Jones explore Kenneth Goldsmith’s online avant-garde archive, UbuWeb, listen to some of the things you can find on it, and consider what might not be found there. Find Gill'...
30 Maalis 202153min
Israel’s Apartheid
Mouin Rabbani and Nathan Thrall talk to Adam Shatz about Israel’s vaccination programme, the system of apartheid that now effectively exists between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea, the leg...
23 Maalis 202158min
Jorie Graham: ‘To 2040’
In this extra episode, Jorie Graham reads her poem ‘To 2040’, published in the latest issue of the LRB. You can listen to Jorie Graham reading twelve more of her poems from the LRB on our website here...
18 Maalis 202111min
