Get your tickets to The Battle of Ideas Festival now. This year, @jackaldane.bsky.social hosts a live episode of The Booking Club celebrating 75 years of The Catcher in the Rye with @jjcharlesworth.bsky.social, Tim Black and Georgina Mumford. Don’t be a phony! Join us!

#BattleFest 26 is on its way… Find us in the cafe of Church House on Sun 18 Oct for a celebration of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye at 75 ⭐ @jjcharlesworth.bsky.social editor @artreview.bsky.social ⭐Tim Black associate editor Spiked Online ⭐Georgina Mumford, writer 🔗🎟️👇

#BattleFest 26 is on its way… Find us in the cafe of Church House on Sun 18 Oct for a celebration of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye at 75 ⭐ @jjcharlesworth.bsky.social editor @artreview.bsky.social ⭐Tim Black associate editor Spiked Online ⭐Georgina Mumford, writer 🔗🎟️👇

Why did Dickens say he "purposely dwelt on the romantic side of familiar things" in Bleak House? @philiphensher.bsky.social, author of new book📚 The History of the Novel of Britain📚 (out this week) speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social on Ep# 3 🔗👇

Remembering Wendell Berry in a throwback episode from 2020 in which @jackaldane.bsky.social reads from The Mad Farmer poems with guest Patrick Deneen #wendellberry

Remembering Wendell Berry in a throwback episode from 2020 in which @jackaldane.bsky.social reads from The Mad Farmer poems with guest Patrick Deneen #wendellberry

🚨 OUT NOW! @philiphensher.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss how to (and how not to) recommend novels to men, why Dickens helps you see through the priggish and pretentious, and more! 🔗 👇

🔈 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social with @jackaldane.bsky.social discussing the End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society. 🔗 youtu.be/r5tMVAif1dM?...

🚨 NEW EPISODE! 🚨 @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social meets @jackaldane.bsky.social in a 🧊 cool 🧊 spot to talk about his forthcoming book 📚 The New Dark Ages 📚 Questions for discussion include: Are smart devices turning us into the Eloi from HG Wells’s The Time Machine? 🔗 youtu.be/r5tMVAif1dM?...

🗓️So much to look forward to on Tuesday 25th August. The launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, a keynote speech from Will Self, a live recording, and more! BOOK NOW! 🎟️🎟️TICKETS BELOW! 🎟️🎟️ 🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Stopped reading again? Well, at least you’ve scrolled to the right place. New episode with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social at Larry’s in the National Gallery out soon!

Stopped reading again? Well, at least you’ve scrolled to the right place. New episode with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social at Larry’s in the National Gallery out soon!

New episode with @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social out now. 🔗 t.co/y4wcWrZfCQ 🔗 t.co/XmDyzU70au

Throwback to March this year when @jackaldane.bsky.social met Ross Barkan in the TriBeCa neighbourhood of New York City to discuss Ross’s new novel 📚 Colossus 📚 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

Throwback to March this year when @jackaldane.bsky.social met Ross Barkan in the TriBeCa neighbourhood of New York City to discuss Ross’s new novel 📚 Colossus 📚 🔗 youtu.be/F01ay_YZuRQ?...

🚨COMING SOON! @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet at James's favourite lunch spot for a thorough discussion about his forthcoming book📚THE NEW DARK AGES📚 Discover what societies really lose when the written word cedes cultural power to image and histrionics. DO NOT MISS!

🔊 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social introduces @jackaldane.bsky.social to the novel that allowed him to read for pure pleasure, what having a literary father did for his appreciation of reading, and more. YouTube 🔗 youtu.be/Y-ohdjjZors?... Substack: thelitpath.substack.com

What I Wish I Knew Sooner about the Joys of Reading, with Ioan Marc Jones

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🚨COMING SOON! @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet at James's favourite lunch spot for a thorough discussion about his forthcoming book📚THE NEW DARK AGES📚 Discover what societies really lose when the written word cedes cultural power to image and histrionics. DO NOT MISS!

📢ANNOUNCEMENT Will Self will deliver the keynote speech for My Martin Amis LIVE on 🗓️Tues 25 Aug🗓️, where we launch The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, and bring you a live podcast with @jackaldane.bsky.social 🎟️EARLYBIRD tickets until 1 July 11:59PM🎟️ BOOK NOW🔗 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Kathleen Stock has been discussing friction-maxxing on Times Radio this morning, and the subject finds its way into the next episode of The Booking Club, when she and @jackaldane.bsky.social meet for dinner to discuss 📚Do Not Go Gentle: The Case Against Assisted Death📚 More soon!

🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟️ Early bird tickets at £35, on sale until the end of June. Join us for the launch of The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, with a panel discussion, intimate presentation on the arduous and electrifying task of Editing Amis, and more! BOOK NOW: trybooking.com/uk/GQIT

🎧 EPISODE 1 IS UP! @jackaldane.bsky.social first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer + author @johnyorkestory.bsky.social They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler. 📺 🔗 in replies.

🚨EPISODE #1 DROPS THIS FRIDAY! @jackaldane.bsky.social is joined at the beginning of The Lit Path by storytelling sage @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss 📚GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 📚, the novel that redefined the point of reading for John, and which remains his greatest literary adventure to this day.

🔊 NEW EPISODE! Kathleen Stock and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss The Case Against Assisted Death: where the UK Bill stands, what assisted dying policy looks like in practice around the world, and whether pain and suffering are worth more than we realise. 🔗 youtu.be/lKGZVCGq-RQ?...

🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT! The My Martin Amis podcast is going LIVE in London again on 25 AUGUST 2026 (Amis’s birthday, it just so happens🍸) 🎉 AFTER AMIS 🎉 takes you from noon to midnight with one fabulous conversation after another, culminating in an afterparty for the ages. More detail to follow.

"British people wonder what's going on with the government. The answer is: you haven't got one." Will Self levels with the audience in this new episode taken from our LIVE event at Special Rider Books and Records. Expect more home truths from the author in the coming days, weeks.

"British people wonder what's going on with the government. The answer is: you haven't got one." Will Self levels with the audience in this new episode taken from our LIVE event at Special Rider Books and Records. Expect more home truths from the author in the coming days, weeks.

🚨UP NOW! On 23rd April last month, Will Self joined @jackaldane.bsky.social at Special Rider Books and Records before a packed venue to discuss📚The Quantity Theory of Morality📚 Nothing was held back, and now, it's all there to listen to, relive and download.