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Brian Dillon & Olivia Laing: Ambivalence
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- Jul 28, 2026
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Summary
In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It's at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. Dillon was in conversation with writer Olivia Laing, author of The Silver Book. You can buy a copy of Ambivalence from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices