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No More Souters
Episode 741
David Souter is one of the most private, low-profile Justices ever to have served on the Supreme Court. He rarely gave interviews or speeches. Yet hi…
2 years, 6 months ago
How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body?
Episode 740
The Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut was named after an N.F.L. player who died of exertional heatstroke. The lab’s main rese…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass”
Episode 739
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star. A botanist by training—a specialist in moss—she spent much of her career at the State University of…
2 years, 6 months ago
Tessa Hadley on What Decades of Failure Taught Her About Writing
Episode 738
The New Yorker first published a short story by Tessa Hadley in 2002. Titled “Lost and Found,” it described a friendship between two women who had be…
2 years, 6 months ago
Talking to Conservatives about Climate Change
Episode 737
Even in a summer of record-breaking heat and disasters, Republican Presidential candidates have ignored or mocked climate change. But some conservati…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Novelist Esmeralda Santiago on Learning to Write After a Stroke
Episode 736
The author Esmeralda Santiago has been writing about Puerto Rico and questions of immigration and identity since the early nineties. But, in 2008, sh…
2 years, 7 months ago
Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions?
Episode 735
The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash point since the Supreme Court …
2 years, 7 months ago
James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”
Episode 734
James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” centers on the discovery of a skeleton at the bottom of a well in a small town in Penn…
2 years, 7 months ago
Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music
Episode 733
Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a song that initially received little attention. B…
2 years, 7 months ago
A Trip to the Boundary Waters
Episode 732
Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in the city include “An American…
2 years, 7 months ago