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Tana French on “The Witch Elm”
Episode 311
Tana French was an actor in her thirties when she sat down to write about a mystery that took the lives of two children, which became the global bloc…
6 years, 7 months ago
Jelani Cobb Talks with the Artist Fahamu Pecou
Episode 310
Fahamu Pecou has shown work in museums all over the country and appeared on television shows like “Empire” and “black-ish.” The men the artist depict…
6 years, 7 months ago
Watching the Moon Landing
Episode 309
Some people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to th…
6 years, 7 months ago
Tom Hanks Reads His Tale of Going to the Moon
Episode 308
In 2014, Tom Hanks—the star of “Apollo 13,” among many other accomplishments—wrote a short story about going to the moon. But his was not a dramatic…
6 years, 7 months ago
Carly Rae Jepsen Talks with Amanda Petrusich
Episode 307
“I can remember, even four months after [“Call Me Maybe” ’s] release, being claimed in the press as a one-hit wonder,” Carly Rae Jepsen says. “Isn’t …
6 years, 8 months ago
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 2020 Presidential Race and Why We Should Break up Homeland Security
Episode 306
It’s hard to recall a newly elected freshman representative to Congress who has made a bigger impact than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her primary victo…
6 years, 8 months ago
Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Episode 305
As he set about adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage, Aaron Sorkin found himself troubled by its protagonist, the small-town lawyer Atticus…
6 years, 8 months ago
As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road
Episode 304
Tracy K. Smith was named Poet Laureate, in 2017, right after the most divisive election of our time. She could have spent her two-year appointment wr…
6 years, 8 months ago
Valeria Luiselli on Reënacting the Border
Episode 303
Valeria Luiselli first travelled to the U.S.–Mexico border in 2014, when the current immigration crisis began to heat up. Under the Trump Presidency,…
6 years, 8 months ago
Emily Nussbaum Likes to Watch
Episode 302
For decades, critical praise for a TV show was that it was “not like TV,” but more like a novel or a movie. That ingrained hierarchy always bugged Em…
6 years, 8 months ago