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Buddhism, writing, and mixed martial arts with Ocean Vuong
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Special guest this week. Ocean Vuong, a poet, novelist, essayist, and the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Ocean has won the Whiting…
5 years ago
"Mare of Easttown" special impromptu episode!
Andy talks with Vinson Cunningham (New Yorker) and Jane Hu (UC-Berkeley English and Film) about the HBO show Mare of Easttown -- a.k.a. “Murder Durdu…
5 years ago
Vinson Cunningham on the NBA, Yang, and IRL theatre
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A break from the news cycle with our friend, Vinson Cunningham, a theatre critic at The New Yorker, playwright, novelist, and all-…
5 years ago
Loving Palestine with Esmat Elhalaby
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We’re back in a new arrangement (Andy and Tammy this time) for our second of two episodes on what’s happening in Palestine. Our special guest i…
5 years ago
Sheikh Jarrah and What Feels Different This Time about Israel/Palestine with Josh Leifer of Jewish Currents
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This week we talked with Joshua Leifer, an editor at Jewish Currents, about the ongoing military violence against Palestinian communities in Ga…
5 years ago
India's Second Wave: with Meghna Chaudhuri
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Andy here with a Friday episode in discussion with historian Meghna Chaudhuri (NYU, Boston College) on the COVID disaster…
5 years ago
"Magic Actions" and "When the Party's Over": the past year in politics
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A long but focused discussion this week—on two new essays that attempt to write recent history.
First, Tobi Haslett’s “Magic Actions” (n+1), re…
5 years, 1 month ago
What happened after '92, and "the secret history" of Ethnic Studies with Tamara K. Nopper
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This is Jay. This week, we have my conversation with sociologist, writer, and data artist Tamara K. Nopper. She’s been an invaluable resource …
5 years, 1 month ago
Vaccine apartheid part 2 + Asian accent game
Hello from the AAPI Oscars!
This week, we begin with a guessing game from George Mason University’s “Speech Accent Archive” (thanks, listener Jai Kan…
5 years, 1 month ago
Michelle Zauner on Crying in H Mart
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We spoke with special guest Michelle Zauner aka Japanese Breakfast about her memoir, Crying in H Mart; her forthcoming album, Jubilee; her lif…
5 years, 1 month ago