August 18 – 22, 2025
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How John Ashbery Thinks: Reading the Collages of a Great Poet
Paul Legault on Art That Shows You You’re Not Dead
Jessica Hopper on Rock, Rapture, and What Artists Do that Mortals Cannot
“These records give me a language to decipher just how fucked I am.”
Deus Ex Machina with a Credit Card: On the Pleasures of Writing Supremely Rich Characters
Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta Consider Our Literary Fixation on the Very Wealthy
Kristen Radtke: “Putting Anything into the World Is Totally Humiliating”
In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast
On the Paradox of the Holocaust in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants
This Week From the Lit Century Podcast
We Don’t Celebrate the Boring Years of Social Movements—But We Should
Julia Baird on the Long, Hard Work of Activism
In the Footsteps of Garibaldi: Tim Parks Traverses Italy—and Two Centuries of History
Encounters With a Nation, Then and Now
On the Power of the “Unlinked” Story Collection
Chris Stuck Recommends Books by James Baldwin, ZZ Packer, and More
How Many “Types” of Stories Are There? And Can They Save Us?
David Chrisinger on Trying to Tell the Story of His Family
Adam Serwer on the Cruelty of Politics and the Politics of Cruelty
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast
Surviving Tough Love: Growing Up as the Child of Chinese Immigrants
Elina Zhang on the Lessons of Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things
Greg Gerke: “We Want More Attention, We Don’t Want to Make Great Art”
In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl
Reading Women Recommends Books by Palestinian Women
Kendra and Sumaiyya Welcome Special Guest Yara Yaghi
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, Read by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrick-Smith
A Campus Mystery Full of Intrigue
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