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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 SubscribeIn 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/closereadingsRUNNING 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 guestsALSO 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 WellesleyGet in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Novel Approaches: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock
Feb 24, 2025
Love and Death: Elegies for children by Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet, Geoffrey Hill and Elizabeth Bishop
Feb 17, 2025
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift
Feb 10, 2025
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Essence of Christianity' by Ludwig Feuerbach
Feb 03, 2025
Novel Approaches: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
Jan 28, 2025
Love and Death: Milton's 'Lycidas'
Jan 20, 2025
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’
Jan 13, 2025
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren Kierkegaard
Jan 06, 2025
Introducing ‘Novel Approaches’
Jan 05, 2025
Introducing ‘Love and Death’
Jan 04, 2025
Introducing ‘Fiction and the Fantastic’
Jan 03, 2025
Introducing 'Conversations in Philosophy'
Jan 02, 2025
Political Poems: ‘Little Gidding’ by T.S. Eliot
Dec 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Marcus Aurelius
Dec 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Gwerful Mechain’s ‘Ode to the Vagina’
Dec 18, 2024
Coming next year on Close Readings
Dec 16, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘Sister Outsider’ by Audre Lorde
Dec 10, 2024
On Satire: 'A Far Cry from Kensington' by Muriel Spark
Dec 04, 2024
Political Poems: ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney
Nov 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Apuleius
Nov 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: 'Tales of Count Lucanor' by Juan Manuel
Nov 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘Black Music’ by Amiri Baraka
Nov 10, 2024
On Satire: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh
Nov 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth
Oct 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Juvenal
Oct 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two
Oct 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ by Aimé Césaire
Oct 10, 2024
On Satire: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
Oct 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice
Sep 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Tacitus
Sep 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio's 'Decameron', Part One
Sep 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois
Sep 10, 2024
On Satire: Byron's 'Don Juan'
Sep 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones
Aug 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Lucan
Aug 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: 'Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle'
Aug 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘Hope against Hope’ by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Aug 10, 2024
On Satire: Jane Austen's 'Emma'
Aug 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman
Jul 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Plautus and Terence
Jul 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Solomon and Marcolf
Jul 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Golden Notebook’ by Doris Lessing
Jul 10, 2024
On Satire: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne
Jul 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen
Jun 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Lucian
Jun 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: The Second Shepherds' Pageant
Jun 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Intimate Enemy’ by Ashis Nandy
Jun 10, 2024
On Satire: 'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope
Jun 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
May 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Plato
May 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Dame Syrith
May 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘A House for Mr Biswas’ by V.S. Naipaul
May 10, 2024
On Satire: John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'
May 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Apr 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides
Apr 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux
Apr 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt
Apr 10, 2024
On Satire: The Earl of Rochester
Apr 04, 2024
Political Poems: 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats
Mar 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Herodotus
Mar 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Old English Riddles
Mar 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ by Frantz Fanon
Mar 10, 2024
On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'
Mar 04, 2024
Political Poems: W.H. Auden's 'Spain 1937'
Feb 28, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Aesop
Feb 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata
Feb 18, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir
Feb 10, 2024
On Satire: John Donne's Satires
Feb 04, 2024
Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
Jan 31, 2024
Among the Ancients II: Hesiod
Jan 24, 2024
Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
Jan 17, 2024
Human Conditions: ‘Anti-Semite and Jew’ by Jean-Paul Sartre
Jan 14, 2024
On Satire: 'The Praise of Folly' by Desiderius Erasmus
Jan 04, 2024
Introducing: Among the Ancients II
Jan 03, 2024
Introducing: On Satire
Jan 01, 2024
Introducing: Human Conditions
Jan 01, 2024
The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen
Dec 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Seneca
Dec 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Dec 04, 2023
The Long and Short: Alice Oswald's ‘Dart’ and ‘Memorial’
Nov 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Ovid
Nov 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
Nov 04, 2023
The Long and Short: Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'
Oct 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Horace
Oct 15, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Middle English Lyrics
Oct 04, 2023
The Long and Short: Ted Hughes's 'Gaudete'
Sep 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Virgil
Sep 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Sep 04, 2023
The Long and Short: James Joyce's Dubliners
Aug 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Lucretius
Aug 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Aug 04, 2023
The Long and Short: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’
Jul 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Catullus
Jul 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Havelok the Dane
Jul 04, 2023
The Long and Short: D.H. Lawrence's short stories
Jun 23, 2023
Among the Ancients: Aristophanes
Jun 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Le Roman de Silence
Jun 05, 2023
The Long and Short: Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'
May 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Euripides
May 17, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: The Lais of Marie de France
May 04, 2023
The Long and Short: Katherine Mansfield's short stories
Apr 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Sophocles
Apr 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: The Ancrene Wisse
Apr 04, 2023
The Long and Short: Henry James's short stories
Mar 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: Sappho
Mar 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Bede's Life of Cuthbert
Mar 03, 2023
The Long and Short: Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
Feb 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'
Feb 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Letters and Laments
Feb 03, 2023
The Long and Short: Tennyson's 'Maud'
Jan 24, 2023
Among the Ancients: The 'Iliad'
Jan 14, 2023
Medieval Beginnings: Beowulf
Jan 04, 2023
Modern-ish Poets Live! T. S. Eliot
Dec 10, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
Dec 09, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Charlotte Mew
Dec 08, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: W. B. Yeats
Dec 07, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Emily Dickinson
Dec 06, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Derek Walcott
Dec 05, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Louis MacNeice
Dec 04, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Adrienne Rich
Dec 03, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Robert Frost
Dec 02, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Dec 01, 2022
Encounters with Medieval Women: Margery Kempe
Nov 04, 2022
Encounters with Medieval Women: The Wife of Bath
Nov 03, 2022
Encounters with Medieval Women: Julian of Norwich
Nov 02, 2022
Encounters with Medieval Women: Mary of Egypt
Nov 01, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Robert Lowell
Oct 10, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Seamus Heaney
Oct 09, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Sylvia Plath
Oct 08, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Wallace Stevens
Oct 07, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: A.E. Housman
Oct 06, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Stevie Smith
Oct 05, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Thomas Hardy
Oct 04, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Elizabeth Bishop
Oct 03, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: W.H. Auden
Oct 02, 2022
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Philip Larkin
Oct 01, 2022