New Daughters of Africa
Bernardine Evaristo, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Nadifa Mohamed, Namwali Serpell and Margaret Busby celebrate the global sweep, diversity and extraordinary literary achievements of Black women writers.
Women in Power
Helena Kennedy, Gina Miller and Rachel Reeves discuss what it means to be a woman with influence.
Literature Matters: Writing and Frankness
Why do we read? Why do we write? What do we reveal when we do?
Literature Matters: The Stories that Shape Us
Cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah Appiah discusses how the stories we read and tell shape who we are with BBC journalist and presenter Razia Iqbal.
Why Race Matters
Reni Eddo-Lodge, Bernardine Evaristo and Heidi Safia Mirza discuss how the intersection of race, feminism and class has evolved since the 1980s.
European Literature Night
In an event celebrating European Literature Night, A.L. Kennedy gives a keynote address, and is then joined in discussion with Clemens Meyer from Germany and Francesca Melandri from Italy. This event is part of the European Writers’ Tour 2017.
News From Nowhere
A. L. Kennedy’s keynote address delivered at the British Library for European Literature Night on Wednesday 10 May.
Picasso’s Faces
In his BBC series ‘The Face of Britain’ historian and writer Simon Schama explored British portraiture and what it revealed about the ‘individual and collective psyche’ of the time. With the NPG’s wide-ranging Autumn 2016 exhibition of Picasso’s portraits, he turns his attention to the painter’s evocations of lovers, family and friends. With writer and […]
The Good Immigrant
What does it mean to be an immigrant in the UK today? Journalist and BBC presenter Razia Iqbal chairs a discussion on immigration, race, identity and writing.
A Life with Joyce
Tom Staley discusses his life studying James Joyce
Leonard Woolf: the whole man
Victoria Glendinning on her biography of Leonard Woolf
The Road Not Taken: Edith Wharton’s English Life
Hermione Lee discusses her biography of Edith Wharton.