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C.I.A. Operatives in the Early Years of the Cold War
Episode 314
Scott Anderson discusses “The Quiet Americans,” and Peter Baker and Susan Glasser talk about “The Man Who Ran Washington.”
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5 years, 8 months ago
Ayad Akhtar on Truth and Fiction
Episode 313
Akhtar discusses "Homeland Elegies," and Marc Lacey talks about "Cry Havoc," by Michael Signer, and "The Violence Inside Us," by Chris Murphy.
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5 years, 8 months ago
Brian Stelter on Fox News and Reed Hastings on Netflix
Episode 312
Stelter talks about "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" and Reed Hastings discusses "No Rules Rules: Netflix and the…
5 years, 8 months ago
Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump
Episode 311
Toobin talks about “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and Dayna Tortorici discusses Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults.”
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5 years, 8 months ago
Kurt Andersen on ‘Evil Geniuses’
Episode 310
Andersen talks about his new book, and Lesley M.M. Blume discusses “Fallout.”
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5 years, 9 months ago
The Life of a Brilliant, Suffering Scientist
Episode 309
Samanth Subramanian discusses “A Dominant Character,” his biography of J. B. S. Haldane, and Patrik Svensson talks about “The Book of Eels.”
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5 years, 9 months ago
The Fictional World of Edward P. Jones
Episode 308
A.O. Scott talks about Jones’s work and the American experience, and Eric Jay Dolin discusses “A Furious Sky.”
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5 years, 9 months ago
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About 'Caste'
Episode 307
Wilkerson describes the ideas about race in America that fuel her new book, and David Hill discusses “The Vapors.”
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5 years, 9 months ago
The 'Seductive Lure' of Authoritarianism
Episode 306
Anne Applebaum discusses "Twilight of Democracy," and Barbara Demick talks about "Eat the Buddha."
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5 years, 9 months ago
The Yearning for the Unexplained
Episode 305
Colin Dickey talks about “The Unidentified,” and Miles Harvey discusses “The King of Confidence.”
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5 years, 10 months ago