Latest Episodes
June 06, 2022
Lauren Redniss on the Art of Dance
Lauren Redniss is the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant and the author of four remarkable works of visual nonfiction. These genre-defying books combine...
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May 30, 2022
Rick Perlstein on Garry Wills
Rick Perlstein is the author of a series of books on the rise of the American right, sprawling works of narrative history that are...
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May 22, 2022
Andrea Armstrong on Incarcerated People
Andrea Armstrong is a law professor at Loyola University and one of the leading experts on the conditions of incarceration in the United States....
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May 15, 2022
Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell
Since 1990, historian, activist, and essayist Rebecca Solnit has written more than twenty books, on subjects ranging from natural disasters and wandering to feminism...
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April 21, 2022
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt
Ta-Nehisi Coates is best known for his writing about racism in America – in particular, his 2014 essay “The Case for Reparations,” and his...
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