Brian Dillon: Ambivalence

For many of us, reading is more than a syllabus – it is sustenance.

In Ambivalence, boundary-breaking essayist Brian Dillon looks back on his formative years in Dublin, tracing an education shaped less by classrooms than by books, grief, and radical ideas.

The acclaimed author of Essayism discusses the seductions of ambiguity and how reading freethinking writers like Woolf, Beckett, Benjamin, and Barthes gave form to a mind devoted to the process of becoming.

Chaired by Charlotte Higgins.