Claire-Louise Bennett and Sheila Heti: Checko...

Michèle Roberts discusses the follow-up to Bookshop bestseller French Cooking for One with Alice Blackhurst. You can buy a copy of French Cooking for Two from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

In The Once and Future Riot (Cape) cartoonist Joe Sacco turns to the communal riots that rocked Uttar Pradesh in 2013. With works such as Palestine, Safe Area Goradze, The Fixer, War Junkie and Footnotes in Gaza Sacco single-handedly invented the genre of graphic reportage, and r ...  Show more

<span>Claire-Louise Bennett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span>Family Walls<span>,” by Maeve Brennan, which was published in<span> </span></span>The New Yorker<span><span> </span> ...

The nameless narrator in author Claire-Louise Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19, absolutely loves books. Their mere presence puts her at ease. But her lifelong love of reading is, in part, because she feels let down by the people around her. Bennett told NPR's Scott Simon that lov ...  Show more

This is a replay from last year with one of my biggest writing inspirations: Dame Jacqueline Wilson! Her 111th novel Love Frankie is out now which we talk about in this episode, we also talk about her journey into being one of the nation's most loved writers, her writing process, ...  Show more

Shawntaye Hopkins discovered Jane Austen’s books for the first time as an adult - and after that initial discovery, she dove in DEEP. Today, Anne and Shawntaye chat about the magic of immersive literary events that celebrate the classics (not just Jane!) and how they’ve changed t ...  Show more