On Giving Up
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman discuss the case for and against giving up—on life, vices, dreams, creative...
In this special episode, hosts Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman discuss the case for and against giving up—on life, vices, dreams, creative...
May 9
Scholar and writer Anna Shechtman joins Medaya Ocher to discuss her book “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword...
May 3
Scholar Randol Contreras joins Kate Wolf and Eric Newman to discuss his new book “The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East...
Apr 26
A double-header episode about two new novels that each feature high stakes feats of translation.
Apr 19
Kate Wolf speaks with the poet Victoria Chang about her latest collection of poems, “With My Back to the World.”
Apr 12
Eric Newman speaks with director Morgan Neville about his new film “STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces.”
Apr 5
Physically putting your body in a place where history happened gives you a different sense of intimacy, a different sense of proximity to that...
Dec 14, 2023
Going through a crisis and having a positive vision of the future are not the same thing. You need to have a positive vision of the future to get...
Nov 30, 2023
There is an understanding that between humans we have this one thing called language and it brings us - or can bring us - together.” Writer and poet...
Oct 19, 2023
Host Tom Zoellner sat down with professor William Wiggins to discuss the ongoing importance of African-American history within the larger context of...
Mar 23, 2023
Time is a political resource. How time is distributed is a question of structures we find within a society. It’s structured by the economic system we...
Mar 2, 2023
I’ve been through war. I’ve witnessed the workings of genocide. I have gone to mass graves across the entire continent (…) We have to un-forget to...
Feb 16, 2023