Remaking the Remarkable

February 17, 2020

With Inua Ellams, Max Porter

Inua Ellams and Max Porter and explore the creative afterlives of texts, lives the writer might have imagined – or not.

Writers Rebel

February 19, 2020

With Chloe Aridjis, AL Kennedy, Daljit Nagra, Ganga Shreedhar, Rebecca Elliott

Writers and academics discuss whether literature has to be about climate change to alter political and social action to save our environment.

What’s So Great About E.M. Forster?

March 16, 2020

With Deborah Levy, Laurence Scott, Preti Taneja, Shahidha Bari

50 years after E.M. Forster’s death, we celebrate one of Britain’s most esteemed novelists with writers influenced by his work.

Members’ Book Group – Maurice by E.M. Forster

March 16, 2020

With Molly Rosenberg

Keepers of the Flame

March 26, 2020

With Mark Ford, Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee

Alan Hollinghurst and Mark Ford remember their close friend, the poet Mick Imlah who died in 2009. They discuss the things that writers leave behind, and the things that shape their work from the first.

Monstrous Women

May 11, 2020

With Nimco Ali, Maggie Gee, Laurie Penny, Shahidha Bari

Three writers explore what happens when women fail to meet the expectations of society, and how literature can confront monstrosity in woman’s form.

Members’ Book Group – Blood by Maggie Gee

May 11, 2020

With Molly Rosenberg

Dressing Up

May 22, 2020

With Amrou Al-Kadhi, Tom Rasmussen, Shahidha Bari

Marking the National Portrait Gallery’s major ‘Bright Young Things’ exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s work, two contemporary writers and drag performers consider dressing up, self-portraiture and autobiographical writing, and the shifting grounds for queer expression over the last 100 years.