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The London Magazine Podcast
May 9, 2025

Leo Robson 

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On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we speak to award-winning cultural critic and novelist Leo Robson. Leo’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Granta and the New Left Review. He works for Literary Review and Granta, and The Boys is his first novel.

In the episode, we talk about evoking London on the page, the strange nostalgia of the 2012 Olympics, the role of humour in novel writing and the virtues of obstinacy in a writer.

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The London Magazine Podcast | Season 3, Episode 3: Leo Robson on cultural criticism, writing London and the virtues of obstinacy



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