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The Matter of War

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Nicole Tung on May 16, 2022

On the front lines in Ukraine Read More

Down the Hatch

by David Hill, Host Violet Lucca, on May 10, 2022

On the past and future of the carnival, one of America’s great institutions Read More

In the Land of Living Skies

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Suzannah Showler on May 3, 2022

Why it’s important to live in the dark Read More

Ghosting the Machine

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Sam Lipsyte on April 19, 2022

In the uncanny valley of the dolls: Sam Lipsyte investigates digisexuality in Las Vegas Read More

Who Killed Louis Le Prince?

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Nat Segnit on April 11, 2022

Ghost in the machine: on the origins of cinema Read More

Notes on the State of Jefferson

Host Violet Lucca, Guest James Pogue on March 29, 2022

Range wars: a secessionist movement reveals the cracks in American democracy Read More

I Multiplied Myself

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Benjamin Kunkel on March 21, 2022

Better living through avoiding it entirely: on the life and work of Fernando Pessoa Read More

Night Shifts

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Michael W. Clune on March 15, 2022

Perchance to dream engineer: on new research into our sleeping minds Read More

The Eros Monster

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Agnes Callard on March 7, 2022

The thrilling, all-consuming, irrational, and outright awful experience of bad romance Read More

Bright Flight

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Vanessa Gregory on February 28, 2022

Illuminations: on fireflies, natural systems, and the complex field of complexity science Read More

Your Own Devices

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson on February 23, 2022

Does your phone really belong to you if you can’t repair it? Read More

Voice Lessons

Host Violet Lucca, Guest T. M. Luhrmann on February 15, 2022

Gaining a better understanding of elite athletes’ inner monologue, and of our own mental landscape Read More

National Treasure

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Dan Piepenbring on February 7, 2022

On the explosive talent of Nicolas Cage Read More

Separate and Unequal

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Adolph Reed Jr. on February 1, 2022

The past is always present: examining quotidian life under Jim Crow to reveal its structures Read More

Free Country

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Rachel Monroe on January 25, 2022

With open arms: on permitless carry and the new generation of guns rights activists Read More

Another Green World

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Jessica Camille Aguirre on January 17, 2022

The big ship: on space exploration, climate change, and a new experiment at Biosphere 2 Read More

Findings + “An Errand”

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Rafil Kroll-Zaidi on January 10, 2022

The scientific method: on the process of writing short stories, literary nonfiction, and one of Harper’s Magazine’s most well-known sections Read More

Routine Maintenance

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Meghan O’Gieblyn on January 3, 2022

Death to life hacking: on the value and freedom offered by habit Read More

A Firm Hand

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Ian MacDougall on December 20, 2021

Inside McKinsey and its attempt to reduce violence at Rikers Island Read More

The Odor of Things

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Scott Sayare on December 9, 2021

Nobody knows about noses: unpacking new research on our ability to smell Read More

Desperately Seeking Sebald

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Lauren Oyler on December 2, 2021

Odyssey and oracle: reassessing the iconic German author’s work Read More

A Posthumous Shock

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Will Self on November 22, 2021

Rethinking the ways we perceive trauma in the past and present Read More

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Host Christopher Beha, Guest Thomas Chatterton Williams on November 15, 2021

On James Baldwin, expatriate writers, and the tension between the United States and France Read More

Ad Astra

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Rachel Riederer on November 1, 2021

The space between us: assessing the potential for conflict in space Read More

Good Mother

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Sierra Crane Murdoch on October 25, 2021

On trauma, Native parenthood, and decolonizing journalism Read More

“Put on the Diamonds”

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Vivian Gornick, Sigrid Nunez on October 18, 2021

On the act of eating one’s words (and worse): Vivian Gornick and Sigrid Nunez discuss the experience of humiliation Read More

To Be a Field of Poppies

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Lisa Wells, Ann Neumann on October 11, 2021

Compost yourself: on the social, psychological, and ecological implications of rethinking what happens to our bodies after we die Read More

Bad News

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Joseph Bernstein on September 17, 2021

Nostalgia for something that never was: deconstructing the power of disinformation Read More

When the Raids Came

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Andrew Quilty on September 9, 2021

A deeper view of life in Afghanistan during (and after) wartime Read More

Seven Steps to Heaven

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Wyatt Mason on August 31, 2021

The voice: on Jon Fosse’s Septology Read More

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