As our Close Readings series come to an end this year, you’re probably wondering what’s coming in 2025. We’re delighted to announce there’ll be four new series starting in January:

‘Conversations in Philosophy’ with Jonathan Rée and James Wood

Jonathan and James challenge a hundred years of academic convention by reuniting the worlds of philosophy and literature, as they consider how style, narrative, and the expression of ideas play through philosophical writers including Kierkegaard, Mill, Nietzsche, Woolf, Beauvoir and Camus.

Reading list here:

https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/conversations-in-philosophy

‘Fiction and the Fantastic’ with Marina Warner, Anna Della Subin, Adam Thirlwell and Chloe Aridjis.

Marina and guests will traverse the great parallel tradition of the literature of astonishment and wonder, dread and hope, from the 1001 Nights to Ursula K. Le Guin.

Reading list here:

https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/fiction-and-the-fantastic

‘Love and Death’ with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford

Mark and Seamus explore the oscillating power of outrage and grief, bitterness and consolation, in poetry in English from the Renaissance to the present day. Their series will consider the elegies of Milton, Hardy, Bishop, Plath and others at their most intimate and expressive.

Reading list here:

https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/love-and-death

‘Novel Approaches’ with Clare Bucknell, Thomas Jones and other guests

Clare, Tom and guests discuss a selection of 19th-century (mostly) English novels from Mansfield Park to New Grub Street, looking in particular at the roles played in the books by money and property.

Reading list here:

https://lrb.supportingcast.fm/posts/novel-approaches

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