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Kafka’s Last Trial? Contested Literary Legacies and Cultural Property
Contributor(s): Benjamin Balint | Stefan Litt | Rebecca Abrams
10/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil his friend’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscri... read more
Forty is a Fearsome Age
Contributor(s): Pamela Druckerman | Natasha Lehrer
10/03/2019 - 2:00 pm
Forty, it has been said, is ‘the age when we become who we are.’ But does it ever feel like everyone — except you — is a proper adult? Do you wonder h... read more
The Book of Sarah
Contributor(s): Sarah Lightman
10/03/2019 - 1:30 pm
Sarah Lightman noticed that The Book of Sarah is missing from the Bible, so she set out to make her own. In this stunning visual autobiography from NW3 she ques... read more
Truth, Love, Jews and Food
Contributor(s): Matthew Stadlen | Tanya Gold | Jay Rayner | Jeremy King
10/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Food: a subject close to our hearts and souls, as well as our stomachs. Two award-winning foodies — journalist and Spectator restaurant critic, Tanya Gold, ... read more
Voices on the Page
Contributor(s): Alba Arikha | Yvonne Green | Alex Clark
10/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
Critically-acclaimed memoirist and author Alba Arikha joins poet and translator Yvonne Green in an exploration of how the literary voice represents the multipli... read more
Opening the Drawer: The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews
Contributor(s): Barry Cohen | Witold Krassowski | Antony Polonsky
10/03/2019 - 12:30 pm
In Opening the Drawer: The Hidden Identities of Polish Jews, Barry Cohen has brought together illustrated profiles of three generations of Poles who discovered ... read more
The Book Smugglers
Contributor(s): David Fishman | James Libson
10/03/2019 - 11:00 am
In a history book that reads like a thriller, The Book Smugglers charts the incredible story of the ghetto inmates who rescued thousands of rare books and manus... read more
The Cut Out Girl
Contributor(s): Bart van Es | Rebecca Abrams
10/03/2019 - 11:00 am
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2018, and described by Philippe Sands as ‘Luminous, elegant, haunting’, The Cut Out Girl tells the true st... read more
Philip Roth: His Life and Legacy
Contributor(s): Ayelet Gundar-Goshen | Benjamin Markovits | Steven J. Zipperstein
10/03/2019 - 11:00 am
‘Literature isn’t a moral beauty contest’, claimed Roth, ‘The belief it inspires is what counts.’ Literary titan and multi-award w... read more
Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred
Contributor(s): Ruth Deech | Trudy Gold | Rod Liddle | David Triesman | Gavin Esler
09/03/2019 - 8:30 pm
Judeophobia, the great hatred. Is it a psychic aberration, a 2,000 year-old disease? Loathing of Jews has been a feature of Christendom since the first accusati... read more
Bertolt Brecht: The Poet Now
Contributor(s): David Constantine | Tom Kuhn | Janet Suzman | Sarah Gabriel | Joseph Atkins | Sue Parrish
09/03/2019 - 7:30 pm
David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have, for the first time, translated and edited the complete poems of Bertolt Brecht, the greatest German playwright of the 20th ... read more
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: Addressing the Bundestag
Contributor(s): Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | Simon Wallfisch | Piano by Iain Farrington | Pianist/ Arranger: Iain Farrington
09/03/2019 - 7:15 pm
In January 2018, cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a survivor of Auschwitz, and then of Bergen-Belsen, addressed the Bundestag to commemorate Holocaust Memorial D... read more
Is Humanity in Denial?
Contributor(s): Jodie Ginsberg | Jane Haynes | Keith Kahn-Harris | Mark Levene | James Libson | Lucy Siegle
07/03/2019 - 8:30 pm
The Holocaust never happened. The planet isn’t warming. Vaccines cause autism. All of us deny inconvenient truths sometimes, but what happens when denial beco... read more
Descent into Darkness
Contributor(s): Lisa Appignanesi | Marina Benjamin | Amanda Craig
07/03/2019 - 8:30 pm
In Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition, treating our inability to sleep not as a disorder, but as an existen... read more
Women’s London: A Tour Guide to Great Lives
Contributor(s): Rachel Kolsky
07/03/2019 - 8:30 pm
Join prize-winning tour guide, award-winning librarian and author Rachel Kolsky as she profiles her latest book, Women’s London. Inspired by walking tours she... read more
Speaking of Murder
Contributor(s): Anthony Horowitz | Anne Sebba
07/03/2019 - 7:00 pm
International bestselling author Anthony Horowitz talks about his ‘infectiously zestful’ novel, The Sentence is Death. Richard Pryce is a phenomenally succe... read more
