Shakespeare and Company

We were joined by Rachel Cusk to discuss Coventry, an expansive and eloquent collection of essays from “one of the smartest writers alive” (New York Times).

We were joined by the brilliant Deborah Levy to discuss her electrifying new novel The Man Who Saw Everything.

We were joined by Lisa Brennan-Jobs to discuss her frank, smart and captivating account of growing up in California, as the daughter of iconoclastic Apple founder Steve Jobs.

We were joined by journalist Amelia Abraham to discuss her “eloquent, empathetic and passionate” (Owen Jones) debut Queer Intentions: A (personal) journey through LGBTQ+ culture. She was in conversation with novelist Yelena Moskovich.

We were joined by one of the most interesting and provocative voices in French literature, Nina Leger, discussing her prize-winning novel The Collection.

Parisian members of the OuLiPo read and discussed selections from the English-language anthology All That Is Evident Is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo: 1963 - 2018.

We hosted the launch of With Paris in Mind: Talking with Artists of This Generation​, the first book by ​Will Mountain Cox​, cofounder of international literature magazine the ​Belleville Park Pages. Will was joined by Yotam Ben-David, Bianca Bondi and Adam Naas.

We were joined by the wonderful James Gregor to read from and discuss Going Dutch, his “novel of simply unremitting goodness” (Gary Shteyngart).

We were joined by Sinéad Gleeson to discuss her “utterly magnificent. Raw, thought-provoking and galvanising” (Eimear McBride) essay collection Constellations: Reflections From Life

We were joined by Casey Cep whose Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee brings the incredible story of a Reverend serial killer and his murder trial to light, interwoven with a vivid, elegiac account of Harper Lee’s quest to write another book.

We were joined by David Wallace-Wells to discuss The Uninhabitable Earth, one of the most devastating but galvanising climate-change books to be written in recent years.

Riffing on Permission, Saskia Vogel's debut novel about love, loss, BDSM and the roles women play in the patriarchy, authors Lauren Elkin (Flâneuse, the forthcoming Art Monsters) and Stephanie La Cava (the forthcoming The Superrationals) joined Vogel for readings and conversation that explored the spaces women are relegated to and those they carve out for themselves, sexual expectations and transgressions, and the current landscape of art and literature from the perspective of three writers who explore the balance of power between the genders.

We were joined by Richard Scott for a reading from his first book Soho.

We were joined by Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 for a riveting evening delving into the history and influence of one of the 20th century’s most important novels

We were joined by Greta Bellamacina for the launch of Poemas (2015-2018), her latest collection, published in a bilingual (English/Spanish) edition by Valparaíso. She was joined by poets from New River Press reading from current and forthcoming releases.