Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, two of today’s most significant intellectuals, examine extremism and other contemporary movements in their new...
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City Arts & Lectures
Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse...
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20 of 434 episodesEmily St. John Mandel
Our guest this week is Emily St. John Mandel, a writer whose work experiments with literary noir, speculative fiction, and horror. Her bests...
Bryan Stevenson
Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his career to helping the poor, defending the incarcerated, and fighting for equality an...
Wendell Berry - In Memoriam
This week, we remember the life of writer, poet, farmer, and environmentalist Wendell Berry, by listening back to a 2010 conversation with f...
Gloria Steinem - In Memoriam
This week, we remember the life of Gloria Steinem – legendary feminist, activist, and journalist, with a rebroadcast of a conversation recor...
Encore - Robert Reich
Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, is one of today’s leading voices addressing issues of income inequality. Rei...
Edwidge Danticat
Essayist and novelist Edwidge Danticat moved from Port-au-Prince to the United States at the age of twelve and began writing about Haitian c...
Laverne Cox
Emmy-nominated actress and activist Laverne Cox rose to fame through her role on Orange is the New Black , quickly becoming an important voi...
Encore - Arundhati Roy
This is an encore presentation of a program originally broadcast in October of 2025. Arundhati Roy’s internationally best-selling novels inc...
Encore - Vivek Murthy
Dr. Vivek Murthy served as the Surgeon General of the United States under both Presidents Obama and Biden. In that capacity, Murthy shaped t...
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi is a celebrated chef and bestselling cookbook author whose newest book, Simple Too , comes out in October 2026. He is the r...
Eddie Huang
Eddie Huang has found success in a dizzying variety of fields, including law, comedy, food, and literature. In his 2013 memoir - Fresh Off T...
Bella Freud
This week, our guest is Bella Freud, clothing designer and host of Fashion Neurosis, a conversation podcast about the connection between clo...
David Szalay
This week, our guest is David Szalay. His novel – Flesh – was winner of the 2025 Man Booker Prize. The story begins in Hungary, and it stays...
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
This week, our guest is Elizabeth Pryor – a professor of history at Smith College, whose work focuses on the histories of race and slavery i...
Lena Dunham
This week, our guest is Lena Dunham, best known as the creator of Girls, an HBO series about a group of 20-somethings that one critic called...
Jose Andres
José Andrés is widely recognized for both his culinary achievements – including two Michelin stars, and 40 restaurants worldwide – and his h...
Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes is a writer on U.S. and global politics. A contributor to the New York Times and MSNOW , and co-host of Pod Save the World , Ben...
Boots Riley
This week, our guest is Boots Riley, an Oakland-based filmmaker and founding member of the seminal hip hop group, The Coup. Like his music,...
Adam Mansbach & Kamau Bell - PODCAST ONLY, EXPLICIT LANGUAGE ADVISORY
NOTE: This is a PODCAST-ONLY program - the titles and contents of Adam Mansbach's books have NOT been bleeped! Adam Mansbach is a novelist,...