Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
The two writers come together for a conversation about Crewe’s debut novel The New Life. Set in 1890s London, it tells the story of two men collaborating on a book in defence of “sexual inverts” – or what we now call gay people