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Fear Less: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry in Perilous Times
Tracy K. Smith comes to Shakespeare and Company for a conversation with Adam Biles. They discuss her book Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, a bold…
10 hours ago
Editions - Episode 1 - Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes with Taìno Mendez
In the debut episode of Editions, a podcast from Shakespeare and Company and Faber, literary director Adam Biles and Faber Editions curator Ella Grif…
2 weeks ago
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…
3 weeks 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…
1 month, 1 week 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, 3 weeks 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…
2 months, 1 week 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 …
2 months, 2 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 …
2 months, 2 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…
3 months 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, 3 weeks ago