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Lea Ypi: Dignity, Fiction, and the Lives History Erases
Philosopher and author Lea Ypi joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company Paris to discuss her latest book Indignity: A Life Reimagined, an extraord…
12 hours ago
Shelter and Storm: Arundhati Roy on Writing Her Mother
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review. Read it here: https://yalereview.org/artic…
3 weeks ago
Ben Lerner on Transcription
Recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, Adam Biles speaks with Ben Lerner about his novel Transcription, a formally inventive meditation on technol…
1 month ago
Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey
Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey
This conversation explore’s Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey. Mendel…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Rare Book Collecting with Ben Brown
In this special edition, we revisit three conversations with Shakespeare and Company rare book dealer Ben Brown, originally recorded in 2022. Across …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Going South: Tash Aw on Inheritance, Identity, and Escape
This week Adam Biles speaks with Tash Aw about The South, his novel of inheritance, identity, and quiet upheaval. Set on a decaying farm in southern …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Booker Prize Winner David Szalay on Agency, Violence, and Restraint
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review. Read it here: https://yalereview.org/artic…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Murder, Mannerism and the Medicis with Laurent Binet
Recorded live in the bookshop, this conversation dives into the inventive world of Perspectives, Laurent Binet’s historical novel that transforms Ren…
3 months ago
George Saunders: Fiction, Free Will, and the Question of Redemption
George Saunders returns to the Shakespeare and Company Podcast to talk with host Adam Biles about Vigil, his long-awaited new novel. Set on the thres…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Narrative Amid Trauma: Emily LaBarge in conversation
In this wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful conversation, writer Emily LaBarge speaks with host Adam Biles about Dog Days, her groundbreaking new work…
3 months, 4 weeks ago