Close Readings
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.
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RUNNING IN 2025:
'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
ALSO INCLUDED IN THE CLOSE READINGS SUBSCRIPTION:
'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
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Letzte Episode
Frühere Episoden
- Love and Death: Family Elegies by Wordsworth, Lowell, Riley and Carson 04.08.2025
- Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley 28.07.2025
- Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin Heidegger 21.07.2025
- Novel Approaches: ‘The Mill on the Floss’ by George Eliot 14.07.2025
- Love and Death: War Elegies by Whitman, Owen, Douglas and more 07.07.2025
- Fiction and the Fantastic: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg 02.07.2025
- Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Will to Believe' by William James 23.06.2025
- Novel Approaches: 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 16.06.2025
- Love and Death: 'In Memoriam' by Tennyson 09.06.2025
- Fiction and the Fantastic: Tales by Jan Potocki and Isak Dinesen 03.06.2025
- Conversations in Philosophy: 'Schopenhauer as Educator' by Friedrich Nietzsche 26.05.2025
- Novel Approaches: ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell 19.05.2025
- Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more 12.05.2025
- Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Franz Kafka 05.05.2025
- Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley 28.04.2025
- Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray 21.04.2025
- Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop 14.04.2025
- Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll 07.04.2025
- Conversations in Philosophy: 'Autobiography' by John Stuart Mill 31.03.2025
- Novel Approaches: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë 24.03.2025
