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Leonard Koren on Life as an Aesthetic Experience
Season 11 Episode 128
For as long as he can remember, Leonard Koren has been searching for beauty and pleasure. Throughout his career, the author and artist—he prefers the term “creator”—has spent considerable time puttin…
Published on 6 months ago
Pico Iyer on the Pleasure and Profundity of Silence
Season 11 Episode 127
Since publishing his debut essay collection—Video Night in Kathmandu, featuring far-flung reportage from 10 Asian countries—in 1988, the prolific travel writer Pico Iyer has gone on to write more tha…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Faye Toogood on Creation as a Form of Connection
Season 11 Episode 126
Faye Toogood is perhaps best known for her Roly-Poly chair, among the more famous pieces of furniture to come out of the 2010s and take over the zeitgeist, but the London-based designer’s artistry an…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Malcolm Gladwell on Finding Freedom in Abandoning Expectations
Season 10 Episode 125
Malcolm Gladwell may be one of the most widely read—and, with his Revisionist History podcast, listened to—journalists of our time. A New Yorker magazine staff writer and the author of seven New York…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Richard Christiansen on Bridging Horticulture and Popular Culture
Season 10 Episode 124
Richard Christiansen believes that the true definition of luxury is having one’s senses on full blast—seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing, and touching the world around by engaging in its beauty and b…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Marcia Bjornerud on the Profound Wisdom of Rocks
Season 10 Episode 123
To the majority of humankind, rocks may appear to be static, timeless objects, but not to the geologist Marcia Bjornerud. In her mind, rocks are rich pieces of text that have evolved (and continue to…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Nachson Mimran on Leveraging Privilege for Good and in Service of Others
Season 10 Episode 122
With great privilege, believes the humanitarian and entrepreneur Nachson Mimran, comes great responsibility. Brought up in a family that operates one of the largest agri-industrial businesses in West…
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Jonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory Art
Season 10 Episode 121
Perhaps best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn (1999), The Fortress of Solitude (2003), and Chronic City (2009)—or, more recently, Brooklyn Crime Novel (2023)—the author, essayist, and cultura…
Published on 11 months, 1 week ago
Lindsey Adelman on the Transformative Nature of Light
Season 10 Episode 120
To the lighting designer Lindsey Adelman, light is at once ubiquitous and precious, quotidian yet miraculous; it can be easily overlooked or taken for granted, but it also has the potential to become…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism
Season 10 Episode 119
In the eyes of the architecture critic Paul Goldberger, a building is a living, breathing thing, a structure that can have a spirit and even, at its best, a soul. It’s this optimistic perspective tha…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago