Podcast

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

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

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

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On the explosive talent of Nicolas Cage

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

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

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

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

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

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Inside McKinsey and its attempt to reduce violence at Rikers Island

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

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

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Rethinking the ways we perceive trauma in the past and present

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

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

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On trauma, Native parenthood, and decolonizing journalism

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

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

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

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

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The voice: on Jon Fosse’s Septology

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The banality of misreading Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Surf and turf: Leanne Shapton on Roger Deakin’s swimming memoir and Gillian Osborne on her wild essay collection

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False cognates: on the diversity and shared experiences within the Latino community

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I never knew I needed you: the detrimental effects of isolation and the importance of strangers

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Thomas Frank on The Soul of America

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On the ground during the unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama

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Don’t keep calm and carry on: a new way of thinking about action on climate change

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