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The Eros Monster

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Agnes Callard

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

Bright Flight

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Vanessa Gregory

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

Your Own Devices

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

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

Voice Lessons

Host Violet Lucca,Guest T. M. Luhrmann

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

National Treasure

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Dan Piepenbring

On the explosive talent of Nicolas Cage

Separate and Unequal

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Adolph Reed Jr.

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

Free Country

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Rachel Monroe

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

Another Green World

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Jessica Camille Aguirre

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

Findings + “An Errand”

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Rafil Kroll-Zaidi

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

Routine Maintenance

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Meghan O’Gieblyn

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

A Firm Hand

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Ian MacDougall

Inside McKinsey and its attempt to reduce violence at Rikers Island

The Odor of Things

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Scott Sayare

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

Desperately Seeking Sebald

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Lauren Oyler

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

A Posthumous Shock

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Will Self

Rethinking the ways we perceive trauma in the past and present

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Host Christopher Beha,Guest Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

Ad Astra

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Rachel Riederer

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

Good Mother

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Sierra Crane Murdoch

On trauma, Native parenthood, and decolonizing journalism

“Put on the Diamonds”

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Vivian Gornick, Sigrid Nunez

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

To Be a Field of Poppies

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Lisa Wells, Ann Neumann

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

Bad News

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Joseph Bernstein

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

When the Raids Came

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Andrew Quilty

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

Seven Steps to Heaven

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Wyatt Mason

The voice: on Jon Fosse’s Septology

Men in Dark Times

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Rebecca Panovka

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

Waterlog and Green Green Green

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Leanne Shapton, Gillian Osborne

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

Home Country

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Héctor Tobar

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

A Complicating Energy

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Elisa Gabbert

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

The Man Who Loved Presidents

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank on The Soul of America

Hard Bargain

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Daniel Brook

On the ground during the unionization effort in Bessemer, Alabama

Prayer for a Just War

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Greg Jackson

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

Stages of Grief

Host Violet Lucca,Guest William Deresiewicz, Sarah Schulman

History will recall: ACT UP, COVID-19, and the arts

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The Eros Monster

Bright Flight

Your Own Devices

Voice Lessons

National Treasure

Separate and Unequal

Free Country

Another Green World

Findings + “An Errand”

Routine Maintenance

A Firm Hand

The Odor of Things

Desperately Seeking Sebald

A Posthumous Shock

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Ad Astra

Good Mother

“Put on the Diamonds”

To Be a Field of Poppies

Bad News

When the Raids Came

Seven Steps to Heaven

Men in Dark Times

Waterlog and Green Green Green

Home Country

A Complicating Energy

The Man Who Loved Presidents

Hard Bargain

Prayer for a Just War

Stages of Grief

Debug

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The Eros Monster

Bright Flight

Your Own Devices

Voice Lessons

National Treasure

Separate and Unequal

Free Country

Another Green World

Findings + “An Errand”

Routine Maintenance

A Firm Hand

The Odor of Things

Desperately Seeking Sebald

A Posthumous Shock

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Ad Astra

Good Mother

“Put on the Diamonds”

To Be a Field of Poppies

Bad News

When the Raids Came

Seven Steps to Heaven

Men in Dark Times

Waterlog and Green Green Green

Home Country

A Complicating Energy

The Man Who Loved Presidents

Hard Bargain

Prayer for a Just War

Stages of Grief

Debug