156 Episodes

  1. Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington

    Published: 9/21/2025

  2. Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir

    Published: 9/15/2025

  3. Novel Approaches: ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset’ by Anthony Trollope

    Published: 9/7/2025

  4. Love and Death: ‘Poems of 1912-13’ by Thomas Hardy

    Published: 8/31/2025

  5. Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

    Published: 8/24/2025

  6. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions' by Jean-Paul Sartre

    Published: 8/17/2025

  7. Novel Approaches: 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens

    Published: 8/11/2025

  8. Love and Death: Family Elegies by Wordsworth, Lowell, Riley and Carson

    Published: 8/3/2025

  9. Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley

    Published: 7/28/2025

  10. Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin Heidegger

    Published: 7/21/2025

  11. Novel Approaches: ‘The Mill on the Floss’ by George Eliot

    Published: 7/14/2025

  12. Love and Death: War Elegies by Whitman, Owen, Douglas and more

    Published: 7/7/2025

  13. Fiction and the Fantastic: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg

    Published: 7/2/2025

  14. Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Will to Believe' by William James

    Published: 6/23/2025

  15. Novel Approaches: 'Aurora Leigh' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Published: 6/16/2025

  16. Love and Death: 'In Memoriam' by Tennyson

    Published: 6/9/2025

  17. Fiction and the Fantastic: Tales by Jan Potocki and Isak Dinesen

    Published: 6/3/2025

  18. Conversations in Philosophy: 'Schopenhauer as Educator' by Friedrich Nietzsche

    Published: 5/26/2025

  19. Novel Approaches: ‘North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Published: 5/19/2025

  20. Love and Death: Self-Elegies by Plath, Larkin, Hardy and more

    Published: 5/12/2025

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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 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 Get in touch: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.