The Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in the village of Krajanów where she was once neighbors with “three different translators of William Blake in an excerpt from her <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7968/the-art-of-fiction-no-258-olga-tokarczuk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Art of Fiction</a> interview with Marta Figlerowicz.

This episode was produced and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and performed by<a href="https://ernstreijseger.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Ernst Reijseger</a>.

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S4E8 | The Walk Book

The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert Glück, Jean Garnett, and Sean Thor Conroe; and performances by George Takei, Lena Waithe, and many others. Catch up on earlier seasons, and listen to the trailer for Season 4 now.