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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about t…
1 year, 9 months ago
Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of …
1 year, 9 months ago
Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X.
Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M…
1 year, 9 months ago
Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
Set in small-town, post-crash Ireland, The Bee Sting follows the Barnes family—Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ—as the fabric of their lives first frays a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
A woman tells her son about his early life. About the months and years that he will by now have forgotten. When he was a baby, then a toddler, and wh…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rachel Cusk on Art, Violence and Freedom through Destruction
The biographies of several artists, all named G, form a kind of exoskeleton to Rachel Cusk’s latest novel Parade, encasing the book’s other captivati…
1 year, 11 months ago
When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru
Last week we were joined in the bookshop by Hari Kunzru, whose new novel Blue Ruin is a deeply unsettling, and intensely thought provoking reflection…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries
Last week we were joined by the wonderful Sheila Heti to celebrate the launch of her Alphabetical Diaries. In taking a decade of her journals, sortin…
1 year, 11 months ago
BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd!
To celebrate Dylan Thomas Day 2024 we’re delighted to share this recording of our recent event with award-winning songwriter, author and broadcaster …
2 years ago
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities
A few weeks ago, we welcomed Pulitzer Prizewinner Viet Thanh Nguyen to Shakespeare and Company to discuss his engrossing new work A Man of Two Faces:…
2 years ago