54 Episodes

  1. Paul Theroux: On Missionaries, China and Dickens

    Published: 11/8/2023

  2. Robert Reich: The Flipside of Capitalism

    Published: 10/11/2023

  3. Teju Cole: NYC, Open City

    Published: 9/13/2023

  4. Mark Godsey and Rickey Jackson: Surviving Injustice

    Published: 7/5/2023

  5. Jill Lepore: New York Burning

    Published: 6/7/2023

  6. Bill Browder: Freezing Order

    Published: 5/10/2023

  7. Cecilia Kang: The Dark Side of Facebook

    Published: 4/12/2023

  8. Carol Anderson: A Fatally Unequal America

    Published: 3/15/2023

  9. Spike Lee: Doing the Right Thing

    Published: 2/15/2023

  10. David Sedaris: On Fire

    Published: 1/18/2023

  11. The Quincy Club: California Dreamin'

    Published: 12/28/2022

  12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Notorious

    Published: 12/14/2022

  13. Ruby Wax: Call Me Crazy

    Published: 11/30/2022

  14. Anthony Doerr: Tinkering with Writing

    Published: 11/16/2022

  15. David Frum: National Fragmentation

    Published: 11/2/2022

  16. Elizabeth Kolbert: Engineering the Anthropocene

    Published: 10/19/2022

  17. Gore Vidal: The Correctionist

    Published: 10/5/2022

  18. Hanya Yanagihara: Creating Paradise

    Published: 9/21/2022

  19. Christopher Hitchens: God is Not Great

    Published: 9/7/2022

  20. Donna Tartt: A Secret History

    Published: 8/24/2022

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