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Exile, Empire & Resistance: YURI HERRERA on Benito Juarez & Today's Political Crises
Season 16 Episode 1221
What happens when Mexico's future president lands in New Orleans, a city of operas, slave markets, and radical musical invention? A man who spoke a v…
2 days, 9 hours ago
On Agency and the Female Gaze: Writers, Artists, Filmmakers & Activists Share Their Stories
Season 16 Episode 1222
Today, on International Women's Day, we hear from writers, artists, filmmakers and activists who have used their work to question old hierarchies and…
3 days, 6 hours ago
Trust, Education & Writing as Resistance w/ AL KENNEDY - Highlights
Season 16 Episode 1221
"The thing that puzzled him was why people don't agree to be fully expressed while they're alive. Why does it only happen in their last moment? Why w…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Art of Fiction, Democracy & Truth with AL KENNEDY
Season 16 Episode 1220
What happens when the state infiltrates your most intimate relationships? How do we protect the innocence and imagination of children in an increasin…
1 week, 5 days ago
SIRI HUSTVEDT on Love, Grief & Her Late Husband PAUL AUSTER - Highlights
Season 16 Episode 1219
“Grief is a particular kind of unrequited love. It wasn't unrequited in the past. Usually, we think of unrequited love as you never got to do it, you…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Ghost Stories: A Memoir of Love & Grief with SIRI HUSTVEDT
Season 16 Episode 1218
“Grief happens because you don't stop loving the person who died. The person doesn't exist in your reality anymore. The everyday is not colored and s…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Healing Power of the Arts: Longevity, Immunity & Wellbeing w/ DAISY FANCOURT - Highlights
Season 16 Episode 1217
"Within society, we seem to have separated the arts out, so they're not so much a part of our daily lives. Often there's something that we feel we sh…
1 month ago
ART CURE: How the Arts Can Transform Our Health with DAISY FANCOURT
Season 16 Episode 1216
Did you know that visiting a museum can lower your cortisol levels? Or that singing can bond a group faster than almost any other activity? We tend t…
1 month ago
Humans as Storytelling Animals: Poets, Novelists & Musicians on the Power of Writing
Season 16 Episode 1215
Why do we write? Is it to capture a memory before it vanishes or to build a bridge between the person we are and the stories we've been told? In this…
1 month, 1 week ago
On Truth & Civil Society: Richard Wolff, Jeffrey Sachs, Educators & Artists' Stories
Season 16 Episode 1213
How do we restore trust and defend democracy when the very foundations of truth are shifting? Today we look at truth, the decline of the American Emp…
1 month, 1 week ago