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Marina Warner is joined by Anna Della Subin to introduce Fiction and the Fantastic, a new Close Readings series running through 2025. Marina describes the scope of the series, in which she will also be joined by Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis. Together, Anna Della and Marina discuss the ways the fiction of wonder and astonishment can challenge social conventions and open up new ways of living.
The first episode will come out on Monday 13 January, on The Thousand and One Nights.
Marina Warner is a writer of history, fiction and criticism whose many books include Stranger Magic, Forms of Enchantment and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. She was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2015 and is a contributing editor at the LRB.
Anna Della Subinâs study of men who unwittingly became deities, Accidental Gods, was published in 2022. She has been writing for the LRB since 2014.
Texts for the first four episodes:
The Thousand and One Nights (Yasmine Sealeâs translation)
Jonathan Swift, Gulliverâs Travels
The Travels of Marco Polo (no particular translation) and Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (William Weaver translation)
Lewis Carroll, Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
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James Wood and Jonathan RĂ©e introduce their new Close Readings series, Conversations in Philosophy, running throughout 2025. They explain the title of the series and why they'll be challenging a hundred years of academic convention by reuniting the worlds of literature and philosophy.
The first episode will come out on Monday 6 January, on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
James Wood teaches literature at Harvard University and is a staff writer for The New Yorker as well as a contributor to the London Review of Books. His books include How Fiction Works, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self.
Jonathan RĂ©e is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and a freelance writer and philosopher. His most recent book on philosophy is Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English.
The full list of texts for the series:
SĂžren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
Ludwig Feuerbach, Essence of Christianity, translated by George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson, âCirclesâ and other essays
John Stuart Mill, An Autobiography
F.H. Bradley, âMy station and its dutiesâ
Friedrich Nietzsche, âSchopenhauer as Educatorâ
William James âThe Will to Believeâ
Martin Heidegger, âThe Thingâ
Jean-Paul Sartre, Theory of the Emotions
Simone de Beauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity
Albert Camus, The Fall
Iris Murdoch, Sovereignty of Good
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss âLittle Giddingâ, the fourth poem of T.S. Eliotâs Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliotâs experiences of the Blitz, âLittle Giddingâ presents us with an apocalyptic vision of purifying fire. Suggesting that humanity can survive warfare only through renewed spiritual unity, Eliot finds a model in Little Gidding, a small village that for a time in the 17th century served as an Anglican commune before its closure under Puritan scrutiny. Mark and Seamus explore how Eliotâs poetics heighten our sense of the liminal and mystical, and how, by âscrambling our brainsâ, Eliotâs brilliant rhetoric subsumes his bizarre politics.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Frank Kermode: Disintegration
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n02/frank-kermode/disintegration
Helen Thaventhiran: Things Ill Done and Undone
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n17/helen-thaventhiran/things-ill-done-and-undone
Tobias Gregory: By All Possible Art
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n24/tobias-gregory/by-all-possible-art
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For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones turn to the contradictions of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Said by Machiavelli to be the last of the âfive good emperorsâ who ruled Rome for most of the second century CE, Marcus oversaw devastating wars on the frontiers, a deadly plague and economic turmoil. The writings known in English as The Meditations, and in Latin as âto himselfâ, were composed in Greek in the last decade of Marcusâ life. They reveal the emperorâs preoccupations with illness, growing old, death and posthumous reputation, as he urges himself not to be troubled by such transient things.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Mary Beard: Was he quite ordinary?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n14/mary-beard/was-he-quite-ordinary
Emily Wilson: I have gorgeous hair
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/emily-wilson/i-have-gorgeous-hair
Shadi Bartsch: Dying to Make a Point
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/shadi-bartsch/dying-to-make-a-point
M.F. Burnyeat: Excuses for Madness
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n20/m.f.-burnyeat/excuses-for-madness
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For the final episode of their series in search of the medieval sense of humour Irina and Mary look at one of the most remarkable women authors of the Middle Ages, Gwerful Mechain, who lived in Powys in the 15th century. Mechain was part of a lively literary coterie in northeast Wales and in her poem Cywydd y Cedor (âOde to the Vaginaâ) she challenged the conventional approach of her fellow male poets to praise every part of a womanâs body apart from her genitalia. Her witty, combative verses, intended for public performance, deployed a brilliant mastery of the complex metrical tradition of medieval Welsh poetry to discuss the most intimate physical experiences.
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As our Close Readings series come to an end this year, youâre probably wondering whatâs coming in 2025. Weâre delighted to announce thereâll be four new series starting in January:
âConversations in Philosophyâ with Jonathan RĂ©e and James Wood
Jonathan and James challenge a hundred years of academic convention by reuniting the worlds of philosophy and literature, as they consider how style, narrative, and the expression of ideas play through philosophical writers including Kierkegaard, Mill, Nietzsche, Woolf, Beauvoir and Camus.
Reading list here:
https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/conversations-in-philosophy
âFiction and the Fantasticâ with Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis.
Marina and guests will traverse the great parallel tradition of the literature of astonishment and wonder, dread and hope, from the 1001 Nights to Ursula K. Le Guin.
Reading list here:
https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/fiction-and-the-fantastic
âLove and Deathâ with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford
Mark and Seamus explore the oscillating power of outrage and grief, bitterness and consolation, in poetry in English from the Renaissance to the present day. Their series will consider the elegies of Milton, Hardy, Bishop, Plath and others at their most intimate and expressive.
Reading list here:
https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/love-and-death
âNovel Approachesâ with Clare Bucknell, Thomas Jones and other guests
Clare, Tom and guests discuss a selection of 19th-century (mostly) English novels from Mansfield Park to New Grub Street, looking in particular at the roles played in the books by money and property.
Reading list here:
https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/novel-approaches
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In the final episode of Human Conditions, Brent and Adam turn to Audre Lordeâs Sister Outsider, a collection of prose with exceptional relevance to contemporary grassroots politics. Like Du Bois, CĂ©saire and Baraka, Lordeâs work defies genre: as she argues in this collection, âpoetry is not a luxuryâ but an essential tool for liberation. Throughout her work, Lorde sought to find and articulate new ways of living that encompassed her whole self â as a Black woman, poet, essayist, novelist, mother and lesbian. Brent and Adam discuss Lordeâs radical poetics and politics, and the case for poetry, anger, vulnerability, love and desire as the arsenal of revolution.
This podcast was recorded on 21 August 2024.
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Brent Hayes Edwards is a scholar of African American and Francophone literature and of jazz studies at Columbia University.
Get in touch: [email protected]
Further reading and listening in the LRB:
Reni Eddo-Lodge & Sarah Shin: On Audre Lorde
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/at-the-bookshop/reni-eddo-lodge-and-sarah-shin-on-audre-lorde-your-silence-will-not-protect-you
Jesse McCarthy & Adam Shatz: Blind Spots
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/blind-spots
Sean Jacobs: Chop-Chop Spirit
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n09/sean-jacobs/chop-chop-spirit
Ange Mlinko: Waiting for the Poetry
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n14/ange-mlinko/waiting-for-the-poetry
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In the final episode of their series, Colin and Clare arrive at Muriel Spark, who would never have considered herself a satirist though her writing was as bitingly satirical as any 20th-century novelist's. A Far Cry from Kensington has a deceptively simple plot: Agnes Hawkins, working for a publisher in London in the 1950s, insults Hector Bartlett, a would-be author, by calling him a âpisseur de copieâ. Bartlett seeks revenge with the help of Hawkinsâs fellow lodger, Wanda, with tragic results. Yet the true plot of any Spark novel is difficult to pin down, not least when the word âplotâ is deployed so frequently by her characters to imply conspiracy and misinformation. Colin and Clare discuss Sparkâs kaleidoscopic view of reality and the ways in which both Catholicism and Calvinism play through her work.
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Read more in the LRB:
Jenny Turner:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n15/jenny-turner/she-who-can-do-no-wrong
Frank Kermode:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n17/frank-kermode/mistress-of-disappearances
Susan Eilenberg:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n24/susan-eilenberg/complacent-bounty
James Wood:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n17/james-wood/can-this-be-what-happened-to-lord-lucan-after-the-night-of-7-november-1974
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As an undergraduate, Seamus Heaney visited Station Island several times, an ancient pilgrimage site traditionally associated with St Patrick and purgatory. Decades later, Heaney worked through competing calls for political engagement and his long-lapsed Catholicism in âStation Islandâ, a poem he described as an âexorcismâ.
A dreamlike reworking of Danteâs Purgatorio, âStation Islandâ describes Heaneyâs encounters with the ghosts of childhood acquaintances, literary heroes and victims of the Troubles. Seamus and Mark explore Heaneyâs unusually autobiographical poem, which wrestles with the inescapability of politics.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Paul Muldoon: Sweaney Peregraine
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n20/paul-muldoon/sweaney-peregraine
Seamus Perry: We Did and We Didnât
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n09/seamus-perry/we-did-and-we-didn-t
John Kerrigan: Hand and Foot
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n11/john-kerrigan/hand-and-foot
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Apuleiusâ âMetamorphosesâ, better known as âThe Golden Assâ, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess Isis intervenes, the novel includes frenetic wordplay, filthy humour and the earliest known version of the Psyche and Cupid myth. In this episode, Tom and Emily discuss Apuleiusâ anarchic mix of the high and low brow, and his incisive depiction of the lives of impoverished and enslaved people.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Peter Parsons: Ancient Greek Romances
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v03/n15/peter-parsons/ancient-greek-romances
Leofranc Holford-Strevens: Godâs Will
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n10/leofranc-holford-strevens/god-s-will
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If youâre looking for advice on sustaining a marriage, or robbing a grave, or performing liver surgery, then a series of self-help stories by a 14th-century Spanish prince is a good place to start. Tales of Count Lucanor, written between 1328 and 1335 by Prince Juan Manuel of Villena, is one of the earliest works of Castilian prose. The tales follow the familiar shape of many medieval stories, presented as a kind of medicine to improve the lives of its readers by example. Yet in his preface Manuel makes an unusual assertion about the individuality of all people, a philosophy that, as Mary and Irina discuss in this episode, leads to bizarre and opaque moral messages intended more to make the reader think for themselves than reach a universal conclusion.
Find a translation of the Tales here: https://elfinspell.com/CountLucanor1.html
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In 'Black Music', a collection of essays, liner notes and interviews from 1959 to 1967, Amiri Baraka captures the ferment, energy and excitement of the avant-garde jazz scene. Published while he still went by LeRoi Jones, it provides a composite picture of Barakaâs evolving thought, aesthetic values and literary experimentation. In this episode, Brent and Adam discuss the ways in which Baraka tackled the challenge of writing about music and his intimate connections to the major players in jazz. Whether youâre familiar with the music or totally new to the New Thing, 'Black Music' is an essential guide to a period of political and artistic upheaval.
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Brent Hayes Edwards is a scholar of African American and Francophone literature and of jazz studies at Columbia University.
Get in touch: [email protected]
Further reading in the LRB:
Adam Shatz: The Freedom Principle
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/may/the-freedom-principle
Adam Shatz: On Ornette Coleman
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n14/adam-shatz/diary
Philip Clark: On Cecil Taylor
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/april/cecil-taylor-1929-2018
Ian Penman: Birditis
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n02/ian-penman/birditis
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In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society â âthe century of the common manâ, as he put it â was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he had written several novels taking aim at his âcrazy, sterile generationâ with a sparkling, acerbic and increasingly reactionary wit. In this episode, Colin and Clare look at A Handful of Dust (1934), a disturbingly modernist satire divorced from modernist ideas. They discuss the ways in which Waugh was a disciple of Oscar Wilde, with his belief in the artist as an agent of cultural change, and why heâs at his best when describing the fevered dream of a dying civilisation.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Seamus Perry:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n16/seamus-perry/isn-t-london-hell
John Bayley:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n20/john-bayley/mr-toad
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Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for actually being there to see it for himself (âThou wert there,â Coleridge wrote). This episode looks at Wordsworthâs retrospective account of his 1791 visit to France, described in books 9 and 10 of The Prelude, and the ways in which it reveals a passionate commitment to republicanism while recoiling from political extremism. Mark and Seamus discuss why, despite Wordsworthâs claim of being innately republican, discussion of the intellectual underpinnings of the revolution is strangely absent from the poem, which is more often preoccupied with romance and the imagination, particularly in their power to soften zealotry.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Seamus Perry:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n24/seamus-perry/regrets-vexations-lassitudes
E.P. Thompson
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v10/n22/e.p.-thompson/wordsworth-s-crisis
Colin Burrow:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n13/colin-burrow/a-solemn-and-unsexual-man
Marilyn Butler
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v05/n12/marilyn-butler/three-feet-on-the-ground
Thomas Keymer
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n12/thomas-keymer/after-meditation
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In this episode, we tackle Juvenal, whose sixteen satires influenced libertines, neoclassicists and early Christian moralists alike. Conservative to a fault, Juvenalâs Satires rails against the rapid expansion and transformation of Roman society in the early principate. But where his contemporary Tacitus handled the same material with restraint, Juvenalâs work explodes with vivid and vicious depictions of urban life, including immigration, sexual mores and eating habits. Emily and Tom explore the idiosyncrasies of Juvenalâs verse and its handling in Peter Greenâs translation, and how best to parse his over-the-top hostility to everyone and everything.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Remembering Peter Green
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/september/peter-green-1924-2024
Claude Rawson: Blistering Attacks
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v02/n21/claude-rawson/blistering-attacks
Clare Bucknell & Colin Burrow: What is satire?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/on-satire-what-is-satire
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Mary and Irina resume their discussion of Boccaccioâs Decameron, focusing on three stories of female agency, deception and desire. Alibech, an aspiring hermitess, is tricked into indulging her powerful sexual urges; Petronella combines business and pleasure at the expense of her husband and lover; while Lydia demonstrates her devotion by killing hawks and pulling teeth. As Mary and Irina discuss, these stories exemplify the ambiguous depiction of women in the Decameron, where the world is powered by rapacious female lusts, sex has no consequences and conventional morality is suspended.
Read more on the Decameron in the LRB: https://lrb.me/decameronpod
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Brent Hayes Edwards talks to Adam about AimĂ© CĂ©saire's 1950 essay Discourse on Colonialism, a groundbreaking work of 20th-century anti-colonial thought and a precursor to the writings of CĂ©saire's protĂ©gĂ©, Frantz Fanon. CĂ©saire was Martiniqueâs most influential poet and one of its most prominent politicians as a deputy in the French National Assembly, and his Discourse is addressed directly at his countryâs colonisers. Adam and Brent consider CĂ©saireâs poetry alongside his political arguments and the particular characteristics of his version of nĂ©gritude, the far-reaching movement of black consciousness he founded with LĂ©opold SĂ©dar Senghor and LĂ©on Damas.
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By the end of 1895 Oscar Wildeâs life was in ruins as he sat in Reading Gaol facing public disgrace, bankruptcy and, two years later, exile. Just ten months earlier the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest at St Jamesâs Theatre in London had been greeted rapturously by both the audience and critics. In this episode Colin and Clare consider what Wilde was trying do with his comedy, written on the cusp of this dark future. The âstrange mixture of romance and financeâ Wilde observed in the letters of his lover, Alfred Douglas, could equally be applied to Earnest, and the satire of Jane Austen before it, but is it right to think of Wildeâs play as satirical? His characters are presented in an ethical vacuum, stripped of any good or bad qualities, but ultimately seem to demonstrate the impossibility of living a purely aesthetic life free from conventional morality.
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Read more in the LRB:
Colm TĂłibĂn on Wilde's letters: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v23/n08/colm-toibin/love-in-a-dark-time
Colm TĂłibĂn the Wilde family: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n23/colm-toibin/the-road-to-reading-gaol
Frank Kermode: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n19/frank-kermode/a-little-of-this-honey
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In his long 1938 poem, Louis MacNeice took many of the ideals shared by other young writers of his time â a desire for relevance, responsiveness and, above all, honesty â and applied them in a way that has few equivalents in English poetry. This diary-style work, written from August to December 1938, reflects with âdocumentary vividnessâ, as Ian Hamilton has described, on the international and personal crises swirling around MacNeice in those months. Seamus and Mark discuss the poemâs lively depiction of the anecdotal abundance of London life and the ways in which its innovative rhyming structure helps to capture the autumnal moment when England was slipping into an unknowable winter.
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Read more in the LRB:
Samuel Hynes: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/n05/samuel-hynes/like-the-trees-on-primrose-hill
Ian Hamilton: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n05/ian-hamilton/smartened-up
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The Annals, Tacitusâ study of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero, covers some of the most vivid and ruthless episodes in Roman history. A masterclass in political intrigue (and how not to do it), the Annals features mutiny, senatorial backstabbing, wars on the imperial frontiers, political purges and enormous egos. Emily and Tom explore the many ambiguities that make the Annals rewarding, as well as difficult, reading and discuss Tacitusâ knotty style and approach to history.
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Further reading in the LRB:
Mary Beard: Four-Day Caesar
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n02/mary-beard/four-day-caesar
Anthony Grafton: Those Limbs We Admire
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n14/anthony-grafton/those-limbs-we-admire
Shadi Bartsch: Fratricide, Matricide and the Philosopher
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n12/shadi-bartsch/fratricide-matricide-and-the-philosopher
Mark Ford: The Death of Petronius
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n24/mark-ford/the-death-of-petronius
Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jones is an editor at the London Review of Books.
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