London Review of Books

We are joined today by Isabella Scott.

Based in London, Isabella's writing has been published in Granta, the Financial Times, and the London Review of Books.

She joins us today to discuss her debut, The Bed Trick, Sex and Deception on Trial.

Now, the case at the center of this book is, if not stranger than fiction, at least as strange as fiction can be.

My thanks to Jan Werner Muller for guiding us through the rather disquieting rise of the AfD in Germany and its implications for Europe.

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To me, that's not a particularly compelling like argument.

You know, there's this Emily Wilson piece in the London Review of Books, and she's a very learned scholar, of course.

And I respect her, you know, having a take and especially having some cultural discourse that isn't just about there are too many black people in my movie theater type stuff.

But at the end of the day, like a lot of this criticism comes down to like anime fans complaining that the manga wasn't right.

I love his ambition.

And I think there's a great review of a James Kellam book by James Meek in the London Review of Books quite a long time ago.

that describes Calman as basically a high modernist writing about 50 years after high modernism.

And in a way, I feel like Scotland had a bit of modernism round about the 1930s.

Thanks, Claire.

And thanks to the LRB for having us.

And just to repeat, thanks to all of you for coming out, especially today, when it's hot enough to remind us that the world's ending.

I'm incredibly pleased to be here talking to Sophie, who is just one of my very favourite thinkers and favourite writers and favourite people.

Joining us is Moira Donegan, writer in residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.

Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Book Forum and the Parish Review.

She's the co-host of the podcast In Bed with the Right and a columnist at The Guardian, where her latest on the legacy of Gloria Steinem will be at The Guardian when this program goes to air.

Then we'll examine the warning from a whistleblower inside the government about the Trump administration's intrusion into the state's control of elections, which is a bedrock fact in the Constitution that Trump is trying to circumvent using DHS to compile a master list of voters and the United States Postal Service to purge the list of Democratic voters, or at the very least, since 37% of Democrats vote by mail, cause chaos to invalidate the November election.

And thank you.

And joining us now is Moira Donegan, a writer-in-residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.

Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Book Forum, and the Parish Review.

and she's the co-host of the podcast In Bed With The Right and a columnist at The Guardian, where her latest article is The Deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos Signals a Rupture Within MAGA.