In Conversation with Rachid Benzine

Tue 24 Nov · 17 Queensberry Place London · SW7

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In Conversation with Rachid Benzine Tue 24 Nov 2026 Talks Books & Ideas Highlights of the Month What can literature do in times of war? Join novelist and political scientist Rachid Benzine for the UK publication of The Man Who Read Books , for a conversation on literature in times of crisis with Dr Joseph Ford. His work, across fiction, essays and theatre, engages with questions of memory, transmission and belief. His latest novel, L’homme qui lisait des livres (Julliard, 2025), follows an elderly bookseller in Gaza who turns to literature as the world around him collapses.

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