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December 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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In the latest episode of the podcast, Sepideh Farsia talks to @adamshatz.bsky.social about her film, ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’, about the life of Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photographer who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in April 2025.

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December 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.

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December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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In the latest episode of the podcast, Sepideh Farsia talks to @adamshatz.bsky.social about her film, ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’, about the life of Fatma Hassona, a Palestinian photographer who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in April 2025.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.

Mon 8 December, 8 p.m. at the Garden Cinema, Covent Garden

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December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Our next LRB Screen film is the Artangel film 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman, set in east and south London, including Brixton market and Billingsgate fish market.

Mon 08 December, 8 p.m.
The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden

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November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The BBC is in crisis, again. In the latest episode of On Politics, @lewisgoodall.com and @dannyhinduk.bsky.social join @piercepenniless.bsky.social to discuss whether the BBC is capable of surviving in the digital era.

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November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Issue 47.22 is now online, featuring:

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the green energy transition and North-East England
Clare Bucknell on Robert Frost
@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on American post-liberalism
and Maureen N. McLane on Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel.

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November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Put some thought into Christmas: get them a subscription to the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴.

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November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Issue 47.21 is now online, featuring:

David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.

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November 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Announcing the second of this year’s 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Winter Lectures: @adamshatz.bsky.social, Another Country - Friday 16 January at Conway Hall, London.

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November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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TONIGHT! Our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

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November 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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On Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Next Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Issue 47.20 is now online, featuring:

James Lasdun on what makes a serial killer
Alexander Clapp on scam gangs
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite on Liverpool
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s photographs
Tony Wood on the Latin American right
and Leo Robson on cinema-going.

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October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Next Monday, our LRB Screen series continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers with a screening of 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘯 (1980).

Critic and broadcaster @ellenejones.bsky.social will be in conversation after the film.

Tickets here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lrb-lon...
October 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The second and third of this year’s lectures will be given by Adam Shatz and Seamus Perry at 7 p.m. on Friday 16 January and Friday 30 January respectively, at Conway Hall – and will be listed very soon.

Series tickets for all three lectures are available here:

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October 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Announcing the first of this year’s 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Winter Lectures: Amia Srinivasan, The Impossible Patient - Friday 12 December at Beveridge Hall, London.

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October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This week, James Butler’s On Politics podcast looks at the rise of the online right (and left).

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October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Issue 47.19 is now online, featuring:

David Trotter on 𝘔𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘺
Julian Barnes on Flaubert and his publisher
Fiona Green on Jorie Graham
Owen Hatherley on mid-century architecture in Dulwich and Greenwich
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on Cecil Rhodes

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October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM