Close Readings
London Review of Books
Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series. How To Subscribe In Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes. Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadings RUNNING IN 2026 'Who's afraid of realism?' with James Wood and guests 'Nature in Crisis' with Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Narrative Poems' with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford 'London Revisited' with Rosemary Hill and guests Bonus Series: 'The Man Behind the Curtain' with Tom McCarthy and Thomas Jones ALSO INCLUDED IN THE CLOSE READINGS SUBSCRIPTION: 'Conversations in Philosophy' with Jonathan Rée and James Wood 'Fiction and the Fantastic' with Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis 'Love and Death' with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford 'Novel Approaches' with Clare Bucknell, Thomas Jones and other guests 'Among the Ancients' with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones 'Medieval Beginnings' with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley 'The Long and Short' with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry 'Modern-ish Poets: Series 1' with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry 'Among the Ancients II' with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones 'On Satire' with Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell 'Human Conditions' with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards 'Political Poems' with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry 'Medieval LOLs' with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk
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50 totalt Who's afraid of realism? 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert (part two)
Who's afraid of realism? 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert (part one)
The Man Behind the Curtain: ‘Don Quixote’ by Miguel de Cervantes
Love and Death: Samuel Johnson, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Mick Imlah
Conversations in Philosophy: 'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf
Next Year on Close Readings: Realism, Nature, Narrative Poems and a history of London
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Sovereignty of Good' by Iris Murdoch
Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Auden, Arnold and Schuyler
Love and Death: 'Surge' by Jay Bernard and 'In Nearby Bushes' by Kei Miller
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions' by Jean-Paul Sartre
