Alternative Intelligence: Jeanette Winterson on storytelling, AI and the Power of Imagination
Jeanette Winterson joined us to celebrate the French edition of One Aladdin, Two Lamps , her book-length exploration of storytelling, built...
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How Big Tech Took Control, with Beeban Kidron
“Childhood is once again a resource to be extracted at any cost.” Filmmaker-turned-legislator Beeban Kidron joined us to discuss Users: How...
Dave Eggers: Contrapposto, Craft, and the Case Against AI
Dave Eggers joins us to discuss his 14th novel, Contrapposto , a six-decade love story between childhood friends Cricket and Olympia, illust...
Editions - Episode 2 - Illusions with Megan Nolan
In the second episode of Editions, a podcast from Shakespeare and Company and Faber, literary director Adam Biles and Faber Editions curator...
Paris, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge
Amit Chaudhuri joins Adam Biles to discuss his new novel Chateau Rouge , set not in the postcard Paris of Hemingway and Midnight in Paris ,...
The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison returns to the Shakespeare and Company Podcast to talk with Adam Biles about his new novel, The End of Everything, a disast...
Alain Delon, Murder and Paris ’68, with Edward Chisholm
Edward Chisholm joins Adam Biles to discuss Murder in Paris '68, his deep-dive into the Markovic Affair, one of the most explosive scandals...
BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬
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...
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 Time...
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...
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 , a...
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...
Ben Lerner on Transcription
Recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, Adam Biles speaks with Ben Lerner about his novel Transcription , a formally inventive meditation...
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 Odyss...
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...
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...
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...
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 trans...
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...
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...