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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.

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Latest Episodes:

Walter Benjamin: The Storyteller Aug 15, 2016

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Curator Gareth Evans and scholar Esther Leslie discussed the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, published in *[The Storyteller][1]* (Verso) in English translation for the first time. The actor Flossie Draper, Walter Benjamin’s great-grand-daughter, gave readings from the book. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore, in an intriguingly different way, many of the themes that are familiar from Benjamin's philosophical work. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of Paul Klee. *The Storyteller* has been translated and edited by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski.

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Flaneuse; Women Walk the City: Lauren Elkin and Brian Dillon Aug 08, 2016

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The flaneur – an almost invariably male idler dawdling through city streets with no apparent purpose in mind – is familiar to us from the works of Baudelaire, Benjamin and Edmund White. In a glorious blend of memoir, cultural history and psychogeography, Lauren Elkin investigates the little-considered female equivalent, from George Sand to Agnes Varda and Sophie Calle, leading us through the streets of London, Tokyo, Venice, New York and, of course, Paris. Lauren Elkin, a contributing editor at the White Review, discussed the phenomenon of the flaneuse, and her own walking life with Brian Dillon.

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George Monbiot and John Lanchester: How Did We Get into This Mess? Jul 07, 2016

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In this podcast George Monbiot and John Lanchester discuss Monbiot’s latest book 'How Did We Get into this Mess?' (Verso) and assess the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. One of the most vocal and eloquent critics of the current consensus, Monbiot makes a persuasive case for change in our everyday lives, our politics and economics, the ways we treat each other and the natural world.

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Geoff Dyer: White Sands Jun 29, 2016

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In his latest book White Sands (Canongate) inveterate traveller, novelist and essayist Geoff Dyer investigates, through ten journeys to places as distant from one another as Mexico, Beijing, French Polynesia and LA, the mystery of why we travel. Geoff Dyer's unique blend of humour and intellectual heft was on dazzling display in this evening of conversation with Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery.

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Darian Leader and Tom McCarthy on 'Hands' Jun 09, 2016

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Psychoanalyst Darian Leader was at the shop to present his latest book 'Hands: What We Do with Them and Why' (Hamish Hamilton), in conversation with the novelist and essayist Tom McCarthy. Hands, in Leader's analysis, both as things in themselves and as metaphors, figures of speech and elements in folklore, are a fundamental constituent of humanity's distinctive nature.

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Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller: The Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop Jun 07, 2016

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In the latest Verso podcast in collaboration with the London Review Bookshop, Esther Leslie, Marina Warner and Michael Rosen join Gareth Evans to discuss Walter Benjamin's experimentation with form and media, his concept of storytelling and the communicability of experience, and the themes that run throughout Benjamin’s creative and critical writing.

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The Argonauts: Maggie Nelson and Olivia Laing May 25, 2016

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In this podcast, listen to Maggie Nelson in conversation with author Olivia Laing in the bookshop.

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Hamlet Fold On Fold: Gabriel Josipovici with Charles Nicholl May 19, 2016

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Gabriel Josipovici came to the bookshop to discuss his new book, Hamlet Fold on Fold, a scene-by-scene examination of Hamlet resisting grand interpretative narratives in preference for focusing on our physical experience of watching, reading and...

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Benedict Anderson's Legacy: 'A Life Beyond Boundaries': with Tariq Ali, Laleh Khalili & T.J. Clark May 17, 2016

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In this podcast listen to a discussion chaired by Tariq Ali, celebrating the life and work of historian and sociologist Benedict Anderson, who died in December last year shortly after completing his memoir, 'A Life Beyond Boundaries' (Verso). Tariq Ali is in conversation with Laleh Khalili and T.J. Clark. Interdisciplinary and always innovative, Anderson’s many books, most notably 'Imagined Communities', brought about a fundamental shift in the way we think about the history of nationalism, nationhood and globalisation.

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'Respectable': Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster May 05, 2016

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What does it mean to be middle class or working class? How does class affect us? Lynsey Hanley and Dawn Foster came to the bookshop to discuss Hanley's latest book, *Respectable* (Allen Lane), which argues that class remains resolutely with us, as strongly as it did fifty years ago, and with it the idea of aspiration, of social mobility, which received wisdom tells us is an unequivocally positive phenomenon, for individuals and for society as a whole.

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