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The Ruining of the American West
Episode 258
Christopher Ketcham talks about “This Land,” and Gretchen McCulloch discusses “Because Internet.”
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7 years ago
The Politicization of Academic Life
Episode 257
Anthony Kronman talks about “The Assault on American Excellence,” and Christopher Benfey discusses “If,” his new book about Rudyard Kipling.
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7 years ago
Jia Tolentino on Life With the Internet
Episode 256
Tolentino talks about “Trick Mirror,” and John Taliaferro discusses “Grinnell,” his biography of a pioneering conservationist.
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7 years ago
Toni Morrison's Legacy
Episode 255
Wesley Morris, Parul Sehgal and Dwight Garner talk about Morrison’s career, and Sarah M. Broom talks about her debut memoir, “The Yellow House.”
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7 years ago
The Fight for the Supreme Court
Episode 254
Carl Hulse talks about “Confirmation Bias,” and De’Shawn Charles Winslow discusses “In West Mills.”
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7 years, 1 month ago
Fiction About Unprecedented Situations
Episode 253
Ted Chiang talks about “Exhalation,” and Helen Phillips discusses “The Need.”
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7 years, 1 month ago
Colson Whitehead Talks About 'The Nickel Boys'
Episode 252
The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses his new novel, and Jon Gertner talks about “The Ice at the End of the World.”
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7 years, 1 month ago
George F. Will on Conservatism’s Homelessness
Episode 251
Will discusses “The Conservative Sensibility,” and David Maraniss talks about “A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father.”
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7 years, 1 month ago
Picking the Best Memoirs Since 1969
Episode 250
The Times’s book critics talk about choosing the best 50 memoirs of the past 50 years, and Daniel Okrent discusses “The Guarded Gate.”
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7 years, 2 months ago
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Talks About Her First Novel
Episode 249
Brodesser-Akner discusses “Fleishman in Trouble,” and Katherine Eban talks about “Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom.”
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7 years, 2 months ago