Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Jacqueline Rose & Yasmin El-Rifae: Women in Dark TimesPub date: 2025-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWomen in Dark Times (Fitzcarraldo) begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The story of these women blazes a trail across some of the defining features of the twentieth century – revolution, totalitarianism and the American dream – and compels us to reckon with the unspeakable. Extending her argument into the present, Rose turns her focus to ‘honour’ killings and celebrates contemporary artists whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world. Women in Dark Times, reissued a decade after its original publication, offers a template for a scandalous feminism, one which confronts all that is most recalcitrant and unsettling in the struggle to create a better world. Jacqueline Rose was in conversation about her work with Yasmin El-Rifae, co-producer of The Palestine Festival of Literature and author of Radius.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from London Review Bookshop, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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