Matthew Bevis's guest appearances

Matthew Bevis

London Review Bookshop Podcast

Edward Lear's Feelings

Andy Miller

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Tom McCarthy

Edmund de Waal

Siri Hustvedt

Patti Smith

Yanis Varoufakis

Michelle Tea

John Gray

Pankaj Mishra

Gareth Evans

Mary Gaitskill

Ben Marcus

Will Harris

Carlo Rovelli

OwlTail

Edward Lear

A talk given at the Ashmolean Museum on Edward Lear’s life, art, and poetry. Edward Lear’s achievements – as a nonsense poet, scientific illustrator, and landscape painter – have often been studied in isolation from each other. This lecture explores the remarkable interconnections between them, and shows how he attempts to forge new conversations between paint and print, images and words.

‘Edward Lear’s Vision’, by Professor Matthew Bevis 

Adam Phillips

Anne Stillman

What is distraction? Do we need more or less of it? And how might it be sensed, indulged, or explored in the essay and other kinds of writing? This event brought together three essayists - Adam Phillips, Anne Stillman, and Matthew Bevis - to consider the values and vagaries of distraction and its close relatives. The talk was run in conjunction with the Cambridge Humanities Review, an independent journal of long-form essays and reviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is distraction? Do we need more or less of it? And how might it be sensed, indulged, or explored in the essay and other kinds of writing? This event brought together three essayists - Adam Phillips, Anne Stillman, and Matthew Bevis - to consider the values and vagaries of distraction and its close relatives. The talk was run in conjunction with the Cambridge Humanities Review, an independent journal of long-form essays and reviews.<br/><p> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

Distractions and Diversions: Adam Phillips, Anne Stillman & Matthew Bevis