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And Peace Shall Return — Ben Okri
Season 15
In this short story, Booker Prize–winning Nigerian author and poet Ben Okri envisions the tragedy and peace of a post-human world. Twenty th…
2 years, 3 months ago
An Ecological Technology – A Conversation with James Bridle
Season 15
Interrogating where AI models originate from and who they serve, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle questions our fundamental ass…
2 years, 4 months ago
Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Season 15
In one of our favorite stories, “Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System,” Potawatomi mother, scientist, and professor Robin Wall Kimmerer ta…
2 years, 4 months ago
When You Could Hear the Trees – Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Season 15
In this narrated essay, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s experiences of pregnancy and motherhood bring her into an emerging realization of her own mam…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told – Jamie Figueroa
Season 15
How do our inheritances shape our lives? In this week’s narrated essay, Afro-Taína author Jamie Figueroa brings her pen to the erased and fr…
2 years, 4 months ago
Be Dammed – Laia Jufresa
Season 15
This week, we share a short story by Mexican author Laia Jufresa, translated by Sophie Hughes, that imagines the chaos of a world ravaged an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Portholes – Anna Badkhen
Season 15
What can we learn from imprints in the earth about the ancient presences that left them behind? Acclaimed author Anna Badkhen traces markers…
2 years, 5 months ago
They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Season 15
This week, we’ve adapted the interactive multimedia feature “They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration” for our podcast. Written by …
2 years, 5 months ago
Ravens and Doves – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates
Season 15
In light of the intensifying climate crises we face today, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Julian Yates examine the opposing narratives of survival…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Place by the Sea – Masatsugu Ono
Season 15
In this short story by Japanese author Masatsugu Ono, translated and narrated by Sam Malissa, a woman and her young son move to an abandoned…
2 years, 5 months ago