Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJennifer Egan Talks About 'The Candy House'
Episode 396
Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” is a follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” A few characters appear in …
3 years, 11 months ago
Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of Genesis
Episode 395
The cartoonist Liana Finck’s new book, “Let There Be Light,” recasts the story of Genesis with a female God who is a neurotic artist.
“At the very beg…
3 years, 11 months ago
Elizabeth Alexander on 'The Trayvon Generation'
Episode 394
Elizabeth Alexander’s new book, “The Trayvon Generation,” grew out of a widely discussed essay of the same name that she wrote for The New Yorker in …
3 years, 11 months ago
Fiction About Lives in Ukraine
Episode 393
While a steady stream of disturbing news continues to come from Ukraine, new works of fiction highlight the ways in which lives there have been trans…
3 years, 11 months ago
Life in an E.R. During Covid
Episode 392
Thomas Fisher’s new book, “The Emergency,” details his life as an emergency physician at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he’s worked …
4 years ago
A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History
Episode 391
Fintan O’Toole was born in Dublin in 1958, the same year that T.K. Whitaker, a member of the Irish government, published an influential report sugges…
4 years ago
The Science Behind Mental Afflictions
Episode 390
In “A Molecule Away From Madness,” the neurologist Sara Manning Peskin writes about the errant molecular activity that underlies many serious mental …
4 years ago
How People First Arrived in the Americas
Episode 389
Scholars have long believed that the first Americans arrived via land bridge some 13,000 years ago, when retreating glaciers created an inland corrid…
4 years ago
Two New Memoirs About Affliction
Episode 388
In 2017, Frank Bruni suffered a stroke while sleeping in the middle of the night, an event that led to blindness in his right eye. His new memoir, “T…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Invention of the Index
Episode 387
You probably take the index for granted. It might be hard to remember that the handy list of subjects at the back of a book, with the corresponding p…
4 years, 1 month ago