
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


‘Octopuses,’ Amia Srinivasan writes, ‘are the closest we can come, on earth, to knowing what it might be like to encounter intelligent aliens.’ In our third summer reading, Srinivasan explores the paradoxical nature of octopus lives, and the difficulties humans have in understanding them.
Read more by Amia Srinivasan in the LRB: lrb.me/srinivasanpod
Let us know your thoughts: lrb.me/podsurvey
Produced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah Sahim
Subscribe to Close Readings:
In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
By The London Review of Books4.5
255255 ratings
‘Octopuses,’ Amia Srinivasan writes, ‘are the closest we can come, on earth, to knowing what it might be like to encounter intelligent aliens.’ In our third summer reading, Srinivasan explores the paradoxical nature of octopus lives, and the difficulties humans have in understanding them.
Read more by Amia Srinivasan in the LRB: lrb.me/srinivasanpod
Let us know your thoughts: lrb.me/podsurvey
Produced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah Sahim
Subscribe to Close Readings:
In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

5,472 Listeners

302 Listeners

597 Listeners

137 Listeners

851 Listeners

163 Listeners

141 Listeners

167 Listeners

184 Listeners

50 Listeners

365 Listeners

92 Listeners

230 Listeners

335 Listeners

123 Listeners

70 Listeners

3 Listeners

2 Listeners

5 Listeners

3 Listeners

4 Listeners

6 Listeners

5 Listeners

2 Listeners

0 Listeners

2 Listeners

0 Listeners