January 20 – 24, 2025
- Navied Mahdavian revisits The Plot Against America
- Charlotte Rogers considers writers and language loss
- On the power and complexity of laughter
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Does George Saunders’s Escape From Spiderhead Stand Up on Film?
Jonathan Russell Clark on Netflix’s $100 Million Adaptation of a Beloved Short Story
Turns Out, 1980s Midwesterners Didn’t Want Their Sitcoms Set in Boston Bars
Cheers Director James Burrows on Creating a Warm Set... Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?
A Tale of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (in English and Italian)
Finding the One Book My Young Son Would Sit Still To
Kevin Koczwara on the Genius of Maurice Sendak and Reading Where the Wild Things Are
Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence
Will Jawando on the Life and Death of His Friend Kalfani
“Each War Zone Spawns Its Own Bibliography.” On Reading as a Humanitarian Worker
Gareth Owen Recommends Ben Okri, Barbara Kingsolver, and More
Brazilian Rhythms, Queer Longing, and Caio Fernando Abreu: A Literary Playlist
Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Music That Helps Her Translate
Why Are Novels About Wealth Almost Absent From the Literary Canon?
Hernan Diaz in Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast
Who’s Number One in the Broken Marriage Between the United States and China?
This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Behind the Mic: In Conversation with Narrator Rupert Degas
Hear From One of This Year’s New Golden Voices
Evan Williams on How Surrealism Allows Him to Explore the Theme of Masculinity
In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast
John Scalzi Did Not Write a Pandemic Novel, Even Though It’s Set In the Pandemic
In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network
All Tomorrow’s Fables: How Do We Write About This Vanishing World?
Daegan Miller on The World As We Knew It and New Kinds of Nature Writing
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