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The Possessed

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Joshua Cohen on April 1, 2021

No Ouija board required: on Philip Roth’s writing, legacy, and a new biography Read More

Pafko at the Wall

Guest Jennifer Egan, Rowan Ricardo Phillips on March 26, 2021

At the precipice of the 20th century: Jennifer Egan and Rowan Ricardo Phillips discuss Don DeLillo’s prologue to Underworld Read More

False Prophets

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Madeleine Schwartz on March 18, 2021

Beg, borrow, or steal: the questionable business of artifacts Read More

Complexity

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Hari Kunzru on January 14, 2021

QAnon and the mechanics of belief Read More

“If Only I Could Begin Again!”

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Vivian Gornick on December 22, 2020

The power of memoir Read More

Skin in the Game

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Avi Asher-Schapiro on December 18, 2020

A market-based solution to the student-debt crisis may have financial repercussions that are just as burdensome Read More

State of Exception

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Alexander Dziadosz on December 10, 2020

The permanently temporary status of Syrian refugees in Lebanon Read More

Making Meaning

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Garth Greenwell on October 30, 2020

You may know what you want, but you may not know what you need Read More

Time to Destination

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 22, 2020

The first chapter of Don DeLillo’s new novel, The Silence, in audio Read More

America’s Game

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Kent Russell on September 25, 2020

The art, violence, mystery, and failure of the XFL Read More

The Big Tech Extortion Racket

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Barry C. Lynn on September 18, 2020

Unsubscribe from all: how to stop Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Uber from controlling our lives Read More

A Litany for Survival

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Naomi Jackson on September 11, 2020

It shouldn’t take a village: on giving birth as a black woman in America Read More

Bright Power, Dark Peace

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Erik Reece on September 3, 2020

The poetry of Robinson Jeffers finds new relevance in the age of climate catastrophe Read More

In Plain Sight

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Annie Hylton on August 14, 2020

The movement to hold Syrian war criminals to account in foreign courts Read More

On Moral Injury

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Janine di Giovanni on August 7, 2020

In the field: the burgeoning understanding of moral injury Read More

False Dawn

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Khadijah Queen on July 31, 2020

The constant surprise of COVID-19 Read More

We Shall Not Be Moved

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Audrea Lim on July 28, 2020

Community land trusts and the promise of more equitably grown food Read More

Bogland

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest William Atkins on July 3, 2020

Peat, bogs, and the Irish imaginary Read More

This Is Not a Test

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Barrett Swanson on June 18, 2020

Man-made disasters: the benefits and limitations of emergency preparedness Read More

Grand Designs

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Ian Volner on June 10, 2020

Better living through affordable housing Read More

Tests of Time

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Christopher Beha on May 22, 2020

Making a magazine during a pandemic Read More

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Thomas Frank on May 15, 2020

Government of the people? Thomas Frank on the history of populism and anti-populism Read More

Constant Delighted Astonishment

By Geoffrey O’Brien, Host Harper’s Magazine, on May 8, 2020

Everybody loves a clown, so why don’t you? On Jacques Tati Read More

Dream State

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Yi-Ling Liu on April 30, 2020

Mask on: pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong return to the streets Read More

The Money Question

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Christopher W. Shaw on April 17, 2020

Peeling back the layers of the Federal Reserve—and thinking through potential reforms Read More

Dreams of Stone

By Harper’s Magazine, Ishion Hutchinson, on April 9, 2020

Transcendent moments of memory, authorship, heritage, and religion among the churches of Lalibela Read More

Good Guys with Guns

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest James Pogue on April 2, 2020

Rethinking America’s not-so-complicated relationship with guns Read More

The Old Normal

By Harper’s Magazine, Andrew J. Bacevich, on March 13, 2020

Into the morass: a historical view of America’s disastrous foreign policy

Vicious Cycles

Host Harper’s Magazine, Guest Greg Jackson on February 19, 2020

No news isn’t an option: a consideration of the function and meaning of the news media

Selective Hearing

By Harper’s Magazine, Hugh Eakin, on February 12, 2020

Towards a critical understanding of podcasts

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