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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...
Ada Limón ’s poems expertly combine brilliant observations of our complex world with a tender sincerity. As a two-term Poet Laureate of the...
This week, we’ve gone back into the City Arts & Lectures archives for a 2009 interview with the late conductor, composer, and pianist Michae...
Emma Straub plays many roles as a leader in the literary world: independent bookstore owner, award-winning novelist, and children’s book aut...
Over the past forty years, Gina Gershon has remained a beloved actress while constantly pushing herself as an artist, adding to her astonish...
This program originally aired in 2022. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and the author of four novels and two collect...
This program was originally aired in June 2023. Abraham Verghese is a best-selling novelist, and a physician whose focus on healing and empa...
This week, our guest is Michael Pollan, author of ten books including "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "How to Change Your Mind". Since the 1980...
This is an encore of a program originally broadcast in July 2024. Since their foundational philosophical critique of gender and sexuality, G...
This is an encore of a program originally distributed in 2024. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author, and one of the wor...
Sally Mann is one of the most significant American photographers of the late 20th and 21st centuries. Over a career spanning more than four...
This is an encore presentation of a program originally aired in November of 2024. In this program, two novelists who've created visions of a...
Legendary activist Marsha P. Johnson was one of the most remarkable figures in LGBTQ+ history – central to the Stonewall Riots and the gay l...
The work of acclaimed photographer Meghann Riepenhoff examines our relationship to nature and time, both in subject-matter and process. In p...
This is an encore presentation of a program first broadcast in 2023. In 2000, Jhumpa Lahiri’ s debut short story collection, The Interpreter...
We’re going back to the archives for a 2019 conversation with Meg Wolitzer, whose best-selling books include The Interestings and The Ten-Ye...
This week, we’re returning to a conversation with Charlie Kaufman, recorded in 2020. Kaufman is the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind some o...
Writer Carmen Maria Machado discusses “I Who Have Never Known Men”, a 1995 novel by Jacqueline Harpman that was republished in 2022 to great...
Eleanor Coppola (1936 – 2024) was a conceptual artist and documentary filmmaker. She met her husband, Francis Coppola, in 1962, when she wor...
This is an encore of a program originally broadcast in May of 2025. Ross Gay is a writer with a mission: to help readers explore the beautif...
The iconic activist and philosopher Angela Davis has been a major influence in global politics for more than 50 years. Davis first gained fa...
This week, we’re celebrating the life of architect Frank Gehry, with a conversation recorded in 2015. Widely regarded as one of the most inf...
Our guest is Rachel Kushner. Her writing includes novels like The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers , and essays on everything from prison abo...
Why do people cooperate with one another when they have no (selfish) motivation to do so? Why do we hold onto possessions of little value? A...
This week, our guest is Padma Lakshmi. As host of shows like Taste the Nation and Top Chef, Lakshmi champions cooks and eaters from across c...
This week, our guest is Salman Rushdie. Over the course of six decades, Rushdie has made a profound impact on literature and free speech. He...
This week, our guest is Richard Misrach — one of the most influential voices in contemporary photography. His work appears in major museum c...
This week, an encore of our 2023 conversation with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog. He’s made over 70 movies – most of them documentaries...
This week, our guest is Susan Orlean, the author of The Orchid Thief , The Library Book , and On Animals . Whether exploring the eccentric w...
This week, our guest is Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial news reporter at The New York Times, and co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC. His new bo...
This week, our guest is Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and one of today’s most important public intellectuals. As a staff w...
Daniel Handler’s sardonic sense of humor and deep pathos have engaged readers across genres for over twenty-five years. Handler’s best known...
Author and cultural critic Jeff Chang's new book is “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America”. The world’s most celebra...
This week, the story behind one of the country’s premier dining destinations, Russ & Daughters. What began as a pushcart in 1904 on Manhatta...
Arundhati Roy’s internationally best-selling novels include The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Her nonfiction wor...
Our guest today is Bill McKibben, an activist and author at the forefront of the movement to address the climate crisis, even as far back as...
Our guest today is Samin Nosrat , chef, cookbook author, and television host. Along with her immense technical know-how, Nosrat is known for...
Our guest today is Mary Roach, a science writer who’s often drawn to taboo, or simply squeamish subjects, like sex, cadavers, or the digesti...
We’re going back into the archives for a conversation with theoretical physicist Brian Greene, recorded in 2017. Greene is widely recognized...
This week…. An encore of our 2019 program with Jeff Tweedy, founding member of the band Wilco, in conversation with writer George Saunders....
This is an encore presentation of a 2022 broadcast. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist who gained recognition in the 1970...
This week…. An encore of our 2016 conversation with legendary musician Paul Simon. Paul Simon first gained prominence in the 1960s as one-ha...
This week, our guest is poet Natalie Diaz in conversation with essayist and author Hilton Als. Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gil...
Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, is one of today’s leading voices addressing issues of income inequality. Rei...
This week, we're going into the archives for a conversation with Bruce Springsteen, recorded in 2016. The legendary rock star had just publi...
Alejandro Heredia is an Afro-Dominican working at the intersection of literature and activism. He immigrated to the United States from the D...
Eve Ewing is a professor at the University of Chicago and the author of four books including Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and...
We’re going back into the archives for a conversation with David Mitchell, recorded in 2021. In novels like Cloud Atlas, and The Bone Clocks...
A conversation about the evolving world of psychedelics. While scientific breakthroughs continue to reshape our understanding of how these s...
Shoshana von Blanckensee is a novelist whose debut work, Girls Girls Girls, explores coming of age, queer identity, and San Francisco in the...
Shelley Sella is a board-certified OB-GYN who recently retired after decades as an abortion provider. Her book, Beyond Limits: Stories of th...