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Going South: Tash Aw on Inheritance, Identity, and Escape
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Booker Prize Winner David Szalay on Agency, Violence, and Restraint
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review. Read it here: https://yalereview.org/articl...
Murder, Mannerism and the Medicis with Laurent Binet
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live in the bookshop, this conversation dives into the inventive world of Perspectives, Laurent Binet’s historical novel that transforms Re...
George Saunders: Fiction, Free Will, and the Question of Redemption
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 thresh...
Narrative Amid Trauma: Emily LaBarge in conversation
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful conversation, writer Emily LaBarge speaks with host Adam Biles about Dog Days, her groundbreaking new work ...
See It, Say It, Sorted: Jonathan Coe’s Genre-Bending Novel
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Books Matter More Than Ever: A Conversation with Ian Patterson
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Podcast, Adam Biles speaks with poet, translator and critic Ian Patterson about Books: A Manifesto, his...
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, with Ian Leslie
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this live conversation at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, Adam Biles speaks with writer Ian Leslie about John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs...
When Stories Fall Apart: Miriam Robinson on Love, Loss, and Truth
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this intimate conversation recorded at Shakespeare and Company, novelist Miriam Robinson joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable debut, And Notr...
Why We Write, Why We Live, with Miriam Toews
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An edited version of this conversation is now available as part of our collaboration with The Yale Review. Read it here: https://yalereview.org/articl...
How France Lost Its Way, with Andrew Hussey
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, historian and cultural critic Andrew Hussey joins Adam Biles to discuss his powerful new boo...
Philippe Sands: Pinochet, Walter Rauff, and the Shadows of History
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Adam Biles speaks with international lawyer and acclaimed author Philippe Sands about his latest book, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinoc...
Moonlight Express: Monisha Rajesh on the Magic of Night Trains
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, travel writer Monisha Rajesh talks about her new book Moonlight Express: Around the Wor...
Twenty Writers, One Bookshop: The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, now in paperback
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of the Shakespeare and Company Interview Podcast, we celebrate the paperback release of The Shakespeare and Company Book of In...
Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Adam speaks with translator Frank Wynne and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin about the first-ever English edition of Mafalda, the ...
Calls May Be Recorded: Lipstick, Loneliness, and Late Capitalism with Katharina Volckmer
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katharina Volckmer joins Adam Biles to discuss her biting, bleakly funny second novel, Calls May Be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes. Set...
The Shape of Survival: Eimear McBride on Love, Art, and the City
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this textured conversation, author Eimear McBride joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company to discuss her latest novel The City Changes Its Face...
Katie Kitamura on Fiction’s Shifting Realities
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Kitamura joins Adam Biles to discuss her remarkable novel Audition. Centred on a middle-aged actress whose settled life is upended by a young ma...
Renton Returns, Sick Boy in Love: Irvine Welsh Reimagines His Antiheroes
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this electric conversation, Irvine Welsh joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company to discuss Men in Love, the long-awaited sequel to Trainspotti...
Inside the Story Machine: Natasha Brown on Media, Power, and Fiction
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode novelist Natasha Brown joins Adam Biles to discuss her daring second book, Universality. The conversation explores the novel’s ...
Making Sense of Gertrude Stein, with Francesca Wade
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this rich conversation, Francesca Wade joins Adam Biles to discuss her biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife. Wade explores the complexities of St...
Geoff Dyer’s Homework: Family, Class, and Memory
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adam Biles speaks with acclaimed author Geoff Dyer live from Shakespeare and Company about his new memoir, Homework. Dyer reflects on...
Rebecca Solnit: Changing the Story, Changing the World
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful in-store conversation, Rebecca Solnit joins Adam Biles to discuss her new book No Straight Road Takes You There — a rallying call f...
The Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius Book
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Podcast, Adam Biles speaks with acclaimed author Catherine Lacey about her daring new work The Möbius ...
Writing the Unspeakable: Neige Sinno on Abuse, Memory, and Language
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of child sexual abuse, rape, trauma, and the failures of the justice system.In this powerf...
On the Edge of the Real: Guadalupe Nettel on The Accidentals
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this rich conversation, Guadalupe Nettel joins Adam Biles at Shakespeare and Company to explore the themes of her short story collection The Accide...
William Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip Hoare
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Shakespeare and Company Interview Podcast, Adam Biles welcomes Philip Hoare to the bookstore for a mesmerizing conversatio...
Overnight: Dan Richards on Sleep, Service, and the Secrets of the Small Hours
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adam Biles is joined by writer Dan Richards to talk about his new book Overnight, a deep dive into the world of the night and the peo...
Bruise, Heal, Repeat: Anna Whitwham on On Boxing, Loss, and the Female Body
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adam Biles is joined in the bookshop’s writing studio by Anna Whitwham, author of Soft Tissue Damage, a raw and electrifying memoir...
Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, and Writing the Impossible *International Booker Prize Shortlist*
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode recorded live at Shakespeare and Company, celebrated Danish author Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discus...
Nobel Prizewinner Abdulrazak Gurnah on Theft, Love, and the Power of Fiction
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah sits down with Adam Biles in store to discuss his new novel, Theft. Their conversation delves into the in...
BONUS: Jeremy Pelt on Preserving Jazz Through Storytelling
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For this bonus episode, the Shakespeare and Company podcast welcomes Jeremy Pelt, renowned jazz trumpeter and author of Griot: Examining the Lives of ...
Reimagining Moby-Dick, with Xiaolu Guo
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re joined by novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo to discuss her latest novel, Call Me Ishmaelle. A bold reimagining of Moby-Dick, ...
2016: The Year That Broke Us - with poet and oral-historian Sarah Hesketh
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this thought-provoking discussion, poet and oral historian Sarah Hesketh discusses her latest book, 2016 (CB Editions), a powerful exploration of o...
The Power of Voice – Sulaiman Addonia on The Seers
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live recording we dive into The Seers, the mesmerising new novel by Sulaiman Addonia. In conversation with Adam Biles, Addonia shares ...
Acts of Resistance: Amber Massie-Blomfield on the Power of Art to Shape a Better World
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Amber Massie-Blomfield, author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World. Thi...
Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this pivotal episode, Adam Biles speaks with French journalist and author Salomé Saqué about her urgent new book, Résister. Recorded two days af...
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the second part of this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from novelist Claire-Louise Bennett and Philosophy profe...
Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published by The Stinging Fly Press in Ireland on 2015, Claire-Louise Bennett’s POND found a wider audience with its UK publisher, the th...
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Joycension Day!For this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam reunited for a lively discussion of Watt by Samuel Beckett, ask...
Yasmin Zaher on The Coin
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The publication of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher marks the arrival of a determinedly contemporary, sometimes confounding, always compelling voice in Englis...
David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we so obsessed with the apocalypse? Is it a reaction to the state of the world—climate catastrophe, regional wars threatening global conflic...
Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renova...
Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer)
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Colombe Schneck’s THE PARIS TRILOGY is a book—or rather three books, first published separately in French—about growing up, about friendshi...
Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, pre...
Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to l...
On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherj...
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to t...
Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will nev...
Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, st...
Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground th...
Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life...
Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ab...
Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 fray...
Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 whe...
Rachel Cusk on Art, Violence and Freedom through Destruction
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 captiv...
When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, sorting...
BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd!
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Dylan Thomas Day 2024 we’re delighted to share this recording of our recent event with award-winning songwriter, author and broadcaster...
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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: ...
Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago we welcomed Ottessa Moshfegh to Shakespeare and Company. That night we’re headed almost back to where it all began by revisiting Mos...
Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James—the new novel by Percival Everett—retells, reframes, and reimagines Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective o...
On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We were joined by countercultural historian Pat Thomas, and Peter Hale, manager of the Ginsberg estate, and discover their new collaboration Material ...
Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this very special January night, editor extraordinaire John Freeman was joined by three of his star contributors, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Juan Gabriel...
On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In early February, we hosted a riotous, tender, enchanting and uplifting evening of poetry and prose with the irrepressible Hollie McNish and Michael ...
Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Brandon Taylor, whose new book The Late Americans is a stark retooling of the campus novel for the 21st century. Taking a unive...
Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, we were joined in the bookshop by Annabelle Hirsch whose new book A History of Women in 101 Objects not only gives us an untold and innovat...
☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In advance of their event at Shakespeare and Company this February 8th, poets Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen answer our café’s Proust Questionn...
BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our Bloomcasters reconvene on January 6th, “Joycension Day”, to discuss The Dead : the final piece in Joyce’s Dubliners, described by T. S. Elio...
😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we’re discussing The Possessed, the great, almost-lost novel by Witold Gombrowicz, arguably Poland’s greatest modernist writer. The P...
👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adam is joined by Naomi Klein, whose new book, Doppelganger is somehow both the most personal and the most all-encompassing of her works to...
Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Adam is joined by Claire-Louise Bennett for a wide-ranging conversation, orbiting around Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum ...
🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Set in a near future in which a mysterious smog has enveloped the world, devastating crops and biodiversity, the narrator of Land of Milk and Honeytak...
🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jo Ann Beard’s essays are surprising, insightful, thoughtful, and contains something new in each and every sentence. Recently published in the UK as...
👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you thought life on Airstrip one was tough for Winston Smith, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Because in JULIA, Sandra Newman’s reimagining of Orwe...
⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode Adam is joined by John Freeman to bid farewell to his game-changing literary journal Freeman’s. They discuss the pleasures and challeng...
🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adam was joined in the writer’s studio by Marie Darrieussecq, whose latest book Sleepless (translated by Penny Hueston and published by F...
🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week our host switches chairs to discuss his new novel, Beasts of England, a state-of-the-farmyard novel about back-stabbers, truth-twisters...
💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
09 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Emerald Wounds: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/emerald-woundsJoyce Mansour was a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt whose fierce, macabre...
🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark O’Connell’s new book A Thread of Violence is the writer’s attempt to understand Malcolm MacArthur, the figure at the centre of one of Irela...
🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Set, ostensibly, in revolutionary France, The Future Future follows Celine from young womanhood as she navigates the shifting landscape—which is bei...
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs was first published ten years ago, self-published in fact, and quickly be...
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Up Late: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/up-lateReeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities an...
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unique in its inventiveness, unique in its prose style, unique in its point of view and unique in its sense of humour, Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Do...
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Adam chaired a conversation between Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic, on the writing and translating of The Topeka School, at the confere...
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch is the testament of Sonia—a horse trainer, a racetracker—who tells her story in taut vignettes, each of which c...
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks back we had our dear friend, Bloomsday MC, and eminent Bloomcaster Prof. Lex Paulson as a guest in the library to give a talk on Cicero, d...
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We recently spent a very special evening with 2023 Pulitzer Prizewinner Hernan Diaz, discussing TRUST, his extraordinary novel of power, greed and lov...
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Dolly Alderton stopped by for a signing we took the chance to get her to answer our Café’s Proust Questionnaire. Dolly is a self-confessed ove...
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Watch Us Dance—Leïla Slimani’s effervescent new novel—we rejoin the Belhaj family in 1968 a dozen years into the life on an independent Moro...
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After the recent passing of Martin Amis, we dug out this sizzling conversation between him and Will Self at our festival in 2010. All of Amis’s bril...
On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wish I Was Here—the new book by today’s guest M. John Harrison—is a work which resists description. Monique Roffey goes for “a deep dive into ...
On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Like all of Xiaolu Guo’s work RADICAL is difficult to describe because it’s difficult to categorise. It might be called a memoir, but it’s form ...
How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In How Westminster Works and Why it Doesn’t Ian Dunt blows the cobwebs out of the arcane nooks and crannies of the British political system, demysti...
✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Biography of X is one of the most intriguing, compelling and vertigo-inducing reads of recent years. Structured and referenced like a biography—writ...