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Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Now also the home of Editions: A Shakespeare and Company x Faber Production. Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. Discover all our upcoming events here . If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here . Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Katie Kitamura, Elif Shafak, Claire-Louiose Bennett,
Unknown Host hosts The Shakespeare and Company Interview, a arts show with 207 episodes published.
Recorded for Bloomsday 2026. If you're in Paris and it's still June 16th, join us between 2pm and 5pm at Shakespeare and Company, 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris. Find the film here : https://vimeo.com/408613317 http
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 manifesto on poetry as a tool for deeper living, clearer thinking, an
In the debut episode of Editions, a podcast from Shakespeare and Company and Faber, literary director Adam Biles and Faber Editions curator Ella Griffiths are joined by novelist and performer Taìno Mendez to discuss Ladi
Philosopher and author Lea Ypi joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company Paris to discuss her latest book Indignity: A Life Reimagined , an extraordinary work blending biography, history, and fiction. When a photo of h
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review . Read it here: https://yalereview.org/article/shakespeare-and-company-interview-arundhati-roy Recorded live at&nb
Recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, Adam Biles speaks with Ben Lerner about his novel Transcription , a formally inventive meditation on technology, memory, and human connection. Beginning with the novel’s deceptiv
Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey This conversation explore’s Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey. Mendelsohn reflects on why this endlessly retranslated text still invites fr
In this special edition, we revisit three conversations with Shakespeare and Company rare book dealer Ben Brown, originally recorded in 2022. Across these episodes, Ben guides us into the fascinating, often mysterious wo
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 Malaysia, the story follows a family confronting generational fracture
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review . Read it here: https://yalereview.org/article/shakespeare-and-company-interview-david-szalay This week Adam Biles
Recorded live in the bookshop, this conversation dives into the inventive world of Perspectives, Laurent Binet’s historical novel that transforms Renaissance Florence into the scene of a gripping whodunnit. The discussio
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 threshold between life and death, Vigil follows a dying oil executive and t
In this wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful conversation, writer Emily LaBarge speaks with host Adam Biles about Dog Days, her groundbreaking new work of nonfiction. Rooted in the 2009 hostage event she and her family sur
In this episode, Adam Biles welcomes Jonathan Coe to Shakespeare and Company in Paris for a rich, funny, and wide-ranging conversation about Coe’s genre-bending novel The Proof of My Innocence . What begins as a playful
In this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Podcast, Adam Biles speaks with poet, translator and critic Ian Patterson about Books: A Manifesto , his passionate defence of reading in all its forms. What begins with the
In this live conversation at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, Adam Biles speaks with writer Ian Leslie about John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs , Leslie’s acclaimed exploration of the creative and emotional bond at the he
In this intimate conversation recorded at Shakespeare and Company, novelist Miriam Robinson joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable debut, And Notre Dame Is Burning. Together, they explore the novel’s fractured struct
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review . Read it here: https://yalereview.org/article/shakespeare-and-company-interview-miriam-toews Trigger warning: Thi
In this episode recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, historian and cultural critic Andrew Hussey joins Adam Biles to discuss his powerful new book, Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation. With wit, eru
This week Adam Biles speaks with international lawyer and acclaimed author Philippe Sands about his latest book, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia. Building on East West Street a
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Daniel Mendelsohn
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Ben Brown
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David Szalay
Booker Prize Winner 2025
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George Saunders
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Ian Leslie
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Monisha Rajesh
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Frank Wynne
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Katie Kitamura
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Natasha Brown
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