Events
As well as selling books, the London Review Bookshop features events. Readings, discussions, talks and debates make the London Review Bookshop a vital centre for intellectual exchange. LRB readers get advance information about events at the London Review Bookshop and a chance to reserve tickets (at a discount) ahead of the general public.
Unless otherwise stated, tickets for all events cost £6. LRB subscribers should call us for a discount. There are only a limited number of places, so book now.
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* Call: 020 7269 9030* Fax: 020 7269 9033
Free wine and nibbles after each event.
All events will take place at the London Review Bookshop at 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL unless another venue is specified.
February
John Lanchester
Thursday 11 February at 7.00 p.m.
What went wrong? In 2000, the total GDP of Earth was $36 trillion. At the start of 2007 it was $70 trillion. Today that growth has gone suddenly and sharply into decline, with the effect roughly re... See details
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Thursday 25 February at 7.00 p.m.
In The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, epidemiologists Wilkinson and Pickett draw on thirty years of research to present the case that social and economic inequality leads to wor...
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London Review of Books Winter Lectures
LRB Winter Lectures - The Rhetoric of War and Intervention
Monday 15 February at 6.30 p.m.
Venue: BP Room, British Museum
EVENT SOLD OUT
A lecture by Professor Rory Stewart, Director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Stewart served as governor of a pr... See details
March
Evan Parker and Mark Wastell
Thursday 4 March at 7.00 p.m.
Two of the UK's most exciting improvisors will come together for a special session. Saxophonist Evan Parker has been at the forefront of the European avant-Jazz and Improv scene for the last four decades....
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Previous Events
Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthy
Thursday 7 January 2010
In conversation with the novelist Tom McCarthy, Jonathan Lethem read from Chronic City and discussed, inter alia, Manhattan’s virtuality, the inspiration behind the character of Perkus Tooth, the price of things, and talking animals.
Alan Bennett - The Habit of Art
Monday 7 December 2009
With his new play about Auden and Britten, The Habit of Art, playing to packed houses at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett visited the Bookshop to read from his introduction to the play and to answer an eclectic range of questions from the audience.
Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-Kay Wilmers
Sunday 15 November 2009
LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers, and contributors Jeremy Harding and John Lanchester, discussed the pleasures and pitfalls of writing family histories, under the chairmanship of LRB publisher Nicholas Spice.
Video Clips
Alan Bennett on The Habit of Art at the London Review Bookshop, 7 December 2009
As part of the London Review of Books’ 30th anniversary celebrations, the London Review Bookshop was delighted to welcome Alan Bennett, talking about his new play The Habit of Art.
Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-Kay Wilmers at the London Review Bookshop, 15 November 2009
How do writers investigate their own pasts and shape them into a narrative, one which other people will find interesting? Nicholas Spice, the publisher of the LRB, chaired a discussion with Mary-Kay Wilmers, the paper's editor, whose book The Eitingons is out next month; Jeremy Harding, the author of the memoir Mother Country; and John Lanchester, the author of Family Romance.
Zachary Leader in conversation with Martin Amis at the London Review Bookshop, 28 November 2006
Zachary Leader discussed The Life of Kingsley Amis with Kingsley's son, the novelist and journalist Martin Amis, presenting a full picture of his subject's childhood, school days, and life as a teacher, professional author, husband, father and lover.
The Israel Lobby: Does It Have Too Much Influence On US Foreign Policy?, 28 September 2006
This debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books. A transcript is also available from the ScribeMedia site.