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âIf ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance, this one isâ, writes Andrew OâHagan of Helen Castorâs The Eagle and the Hart (Allen Lane). âThe 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 todayâs headlines.â Castor, whose 2010 book She-Wolves was adapted for television by the BBC, discussed Richard and Henry with Mary Wellesley, author of Hidden Hands: Lives of Manuscripts and their Makers and co-presenter of the medieval strand of the LRBâs Close Readingsâ podcast series.
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In Black Meme (Verso) Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the âmemeâ 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 of the modern world.
Russell was joined in conversation with artist and writer Rene MatiÄ.
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In his memoir Sonic Life (Faber), Thurston Moore recounts a life that has been defined by music. Following a childhood rock ânâ 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 Youth, who changed the sound of modern rock music in a thirty-year career of constant experimentation. Throughout the book we encounter a constellation of musicians and artists who inspired him, including The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Patti Smith, Television, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
Moore talks with poet Jack Underwood (A Year in the New Life, Happiness).
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Described by Mick Herron as âseductive, entrancing, and quite off the wallâ, Rachel Kushnerâs fourth novel Creation Lake (Cape) reaffirms her position as one of Americaâs 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 enigmatic Bruno Lacombe leads his followers in a radical project to reject and undermine the modern world. âI've never read anything like itâ, writes Brett Easton Ellis. Rachel Kushner was joined in conversation by the novelist and critic Adam Thirlwell.
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In âa wonderful book about looking and learningâ (Gavin Francis) retired GP Iona Heath relates the importance that John Bergerâs work and friendship had on her working life as a doctor in a deprived London borough. Five decades of engagement with Bergerâs work and twenty years of friendship with the man himself made her, she is convinced, a better doctor. Heath was in conversation about Bergerâs legacy, for medicine and beyond, with film director and screenwriter Sally Potter, who wrote, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, â[John Berger] reminds us how to think about Charlie Chaplin, how to listen to songs, how to rage about prisons, how to remember that everything matters.â
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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 â fiction and non-fiction, pro and con, philosophical and compulsive â exploring the eternally controversial word. Whether an insult or badge of honour, an identity or a state of mind, SLUTS engages some of the hottest minds of the moment to riff on the subject, exploring the nature of desire and its cultural consequences.
The anthologyâs editor, Michelle Tea (Black Wave, Against Memoir), and contributor Jeremy Atherton Lin (Gay Bar) read from and discussed the project.
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If Only â first published in Norway in 2001, and now brought into English by Charlotte Barslund â is viewed in Norway as Vigdis Hjorthâs masterpiece, a story of the devastation wreaked on one womanâs 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 conversation about the novel with Lauren Oyler, whose own debut novel, Fake Accounts, was published in 2021, and whose essay collection No Judgement came out earlier this year.
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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. âMotherâ ceases to be an individual responsibility, and becomes an expansive collective term to organise under, for people of any gender, with or without children of their own. It begins with an understanding: that to mother is a political act.
Charman discusses her book with Lola Olufemi, author of Feminism, Interrupted and Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.
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Best known for her novels â most recently, 2021âs The Fell â now Sarah Moss has turned her hand to life-writing. My Good Bright Wolf unflinchingly details her experience of girlhood and anorexia in prose described by Jan Carson as âpart memoir, part confessional, part dark and feverish fairytaleâ. Moss was in conversation with Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace.
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Why be a slug? Slugs: A Manifesto (Makina Books) explores a creature that survives by being disgusting. Weaving together manifesto, memoir and poetic language, artist Abi Palmer considers the politics of space, iridescent queerness, and shapeshifting viscous âslug timeâ. In the face of a potential apocalypse, Slugs: A Manifesto envisions a future where humanity becomes just a little more sluglike.
Palmer was joined in conversation with Zarina Muhammad of The White Pube, co-author of the forthcoming Poor Artists (Particular Books).
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In her first novel Hagstone (Fourth Estate), SinĂ©ad Gleeson â who has, in the words of Anne Enright, âchanged the Irish literary landscape through her advocacy for the female voiceâ â explores the darker side of human nature and the mysteries of faith and the natural world in the setting of a remote island housing a commune of women seeking refuge from the modern world.
She was joined in discussion by Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.
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In Catherine Laceyâs dystopian thriller, recently published in paperback by Granta, CM Lucca, widow of a recently deceased avant-garde artist, sets out to write a biography of the woman she idolised. Her quest leads her, through a maze of pseudonyms, half-truths and outright fabrications, on a journey into the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that seceded from the Union after the Second World War.
Lacey, author of three previous novels and one of Grantaâs âBest of Young American Novelistsâ, was joined in conversation about her work by Jen Calleja, translator, co-founder of micro-press Praspar and author of Vehicle (Prototype).
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Palestinian writer and journalist Yasmin Zaherâs debut novel The Coin (Footnote Press) has been hailed as âalready a masterpieceâ (Slavoj ĆœiĆŸek), âa filthy, elegant bookâ (Raven Leilani) and âbonkersâ (Elif Batuman). A young Palestinian woman, wealthy but stateless and with no access to her wealth, finds her life and sense of self unravelling as she teaches underprivileged children at a New York middle school, gets involved in a money-making scheme selling Birkin bags and becomes unhealthily obsessed with health and cleanliness.
Zaher read from her novel, and was joined for discussion by poet and novelist Sheena Patel (I'm a Fan).
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âThere are very few writers with as clear and thrilling a love for the stuff of language as Eley Williamsâ, writes Jon McGregor. Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good revels in the same inventiveness and experimentation that made her debut collection of short stories, Attrib. and Other Stories, so beloved; courtroom artists, childhood crushes, scholarly annotators and editors of canned laughter take their place in a joyful panoply exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient. Williams was in conversation with So Mayer, author of Truth & Dare (Cipher Press).
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Published to coincide with the poetâs 85th birthday, Ash Keys (Jonathan Cape) presents a new selection of Longleyâs finest works. Born in Belfast in 1939, his verse inhabits the landscapes Irelandâs west, at the same time occupying a space within a distinctly European tradition, ranging freely across the continent's histories, tragedies and triumphs. âOne of the most perfect poets alive,â writes Sebastian Barry. âThere is something in his work both ancient and modern. I read him as I might check the sky for stars.â
Michael Longley was joined for this reading and discussion by fellow poet Declan Ryan, whose most recent collection Crisis Actor is published by Faber.
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Strange Relations (Sceptre) explores the crisis in mid-century masculinity through the lives and works of four bisexual writers who fought to express and embody alternate possibilities. The nonfiction debut of Forward Prize-shortlisted poet Ralf Webb, it considers the ways in which Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, John Cheever and James Baldwin, resisted damaging contemporary expectations around gender and sexuality. Will Tosh has described it as âwise, humane, hopeful and exquisitely writtenâ. Webb was in conversation with Philippa Snow, author of Which As You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment (Repeater) and, most recently, Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object (MACK).
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Juliet Jacques is one of the most electrifying short fiction writers working in the UK today; The Woman in the Portrait (Cipher) collects her published and unpublished fiction, work which Agata Pyzik has described as a âlarge canvas on which the pattern for a utopian socialist queer life might be inscribedâ.
Jacques was joined in conversation by the writer and art critic Orit Gat.
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AimĂ© CĂ©saireâs masterpiece of exile and homecoming, Return to my Native Land â beautifully translated by John Berger â is now a Penguin Classic. To celebrate, Jason Allen-Paisant (who has written the introduction for the new edition) and Colin Grant discuss the poem. Allen-Paisantâs most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet), won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Colin Grant is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, his most recent book is a memoir, Iâm Black So You Donât Have to Be (Jonathan Cape).
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In her first novel The Last Sane Woman (Verso) poet Hannah Regel investigates the pains and pleasures of artistic practice carried out against the odds. While researching in a small archive dedicated to womenâs art young graduate Nicola Long happens upon one half of a correspondence, conducted half a century before, written by a recently graduated ceramicist to a friend. As Nicola reads on she becomes obsessed with the parallels between her own life and that of the woman she encounters in the letters.
Regel was joined in conversation by LRB contributor and art critic Emily LaBarge.
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Poets Ella Frears and Will Burns were at the shop to read from and talk about their new collections. Ellaâs Goodlord, from Rough Trade Books, takes the form of a long, lyrical email to an estate agent, interrogating our obsession with âpropertyâ with Frearsâ characteristic humour and sharpness, while Willâs Natural Burial Ground (Corsair) is the second collection from a writer Max Porter has described as âa soulful English poet of the kind we donât make enough ofâ.
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