Close Readings
By London Review of Books
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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.
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If you'd like to receive all the books under discussion in our 2024 series, and get access to online seminars throughout the year with special guests and other supporting material, sign up to Close Readings Plus here: https://lrb.me/plus
Running in 2024:
On Satire with Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow
Human Conditions with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards
Among the Ancients II with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones
There'll be a new episode from each series every month.
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Political Poems: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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On Satire: The Earl of Rochester
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Political Poems: 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Among the Ancients II: Herodotus
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Medieval LOLs: Old English Riddles
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Human Conditions: ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ by Frantz Fanon
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Political Poems: W.H. Auden's 'Spain 1937'
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Among the Ancients II: Aesop
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Medieval LOLs: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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On Satire: John Donne's Satires
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Among the Ancients II: Hesiod
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Human Conditions: ‘Anti-Semite and Jew’ by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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On Satire: What is satire?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Seneca
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Alice Oswald's ‘Dart’ and ‘Memorial’
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Next Year on Close Readings: Among the Ancients II
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Next Year on Close Readings: Human Conditions
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Next Year on Close Readings: On Satire
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Ovid
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Horace
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Middle English Lyrics
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Ted Hughes's 'Gaudete'
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Virgil
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Troilus and Criseyde
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: James Joyce's Dubliners
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Lucretius
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Catullus
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Havelok the Dane
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: D.H. Lawrence's short stories
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Aristophanes
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Le Roman de Silence
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'
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May 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Euripides
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May 17, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: The Lais of Marie de France
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May 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Katherine Mansfield's short stories
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Sophocles
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: The Ancrene Wisse
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Henry James's short stories
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: Sappho
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Bede's Life of Cuthbert
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Letters and Laments
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The Long and Short: Tennyson's 'Maud'
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Among the Ancients: The 'Iliad'
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Medieval Beginnings: Beowulf
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Modern-ish Poets Live! T. S. Eliot
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Charlotte Mew
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: W. B. Yeats
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Emily Dickinson
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Derek Walcott
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Louis MacNeice
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Adrienne Rich
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Robert Frost
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Encounters with Medieval Women: Margery Kempe
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Encounters with Medieval Women: The Wife of Bath
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Encounters with Medieval Women: Julian of Norwich
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Encounters with Medieval Women: Mary of Egypt
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Robert Lowell
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Seamus Heaney
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Sylvia Plath
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Wallace Stevens
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: A.E. Housman
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Stevie Smith
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Thomas Hardy
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Elizabeth Bishop
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: W.H. Auden
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Philip Larkin
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Oct 01, 2022 |