Podcasts
Stay in touch with the bookshop through The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles the show features conversations with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded live from the bookshop.
Yasmin Zaher on The Coin
26 December 2024
The publication of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher marks the arrival of a determinedly contemporary, sometimes confounding, always compelling voice in English-language literature. Telling the story of a young Palestinian...
David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”
19 December 2024
In a world overwhelmed by complex political challenges and endless commentary, where can we turn for insight into how we got here—and where we might go next? From the survival...
Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…
12 December 2024
Why are we so obsessed with the apocalypse? Is it a reaction to the state of the world—climate catastrophe, regional wars threatening global conflict, pandemic scares, and the unsettling rise...
Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”
05 December 2024
On the night of Friday, 13 November 2015, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France during a football match between France and Germany, attended by President...
Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”
14 November 2024
Denis Hirson’s My Thirty Minute Bar Mitzvah can be read as many different books. It can be read as a new, deeply personal, take on a pivotal episode in the...
Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)
14 November 2024
In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a...
Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer)
07 November 2024
Colombe Schneck’s THE PARIS TRILOGY is a book—or rather three books, first published separately in French—about growing up, about friendship, about love, about family, about class, about womanhood and the...
Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
24 October 2024
A woman speaks to us from her room in a residential home, of some description. She reflects on her life, her family, her pets, on time—the past, present and the...
