Inside a journalist’s year of using AI for (almost) everything
Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is ‘I Am Not a Robot.’ She s...
12 Touko 45min
Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'
Sharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in Italy the second season of ‘The White Lotus.’ Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in the new STARZ limited...
11 Touko 46min
Best Of: Novelist Douglas Stuart / ‘Half Man’ Actor Richard Gadd
Like the main character in his Booker Prize-winning novel 'Shuggie Bain,' writer Douglas Stuart grew up in Glasgow, working class, queer, and with a mother addicted to alcohol. His first career was in...
9 Touko 47min
Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, from ‘RENT’ to ‘Hamilton’
Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller played a key role in the production of RENT, Hamilton, In the Heights, Avenue Q, and the revival of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd that starred Josh Groban. His memoir traced...
8 Touko 46min
Nathan Lane is being tested (and he loves it)
Nathan Lane just received a Tony nomination for his starring role as Willy Loman in ‘Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.’ He’s a veteran of the stage – often in comedic and musical roles. But in the ...
7 Touko 44min
How Silicon Valley has profited by aligning with MAGA
Atlantic writer George Packer discusses how tech venture capitalists, who are heavily invested in AI and cryptocurrency, aligned with Trump and influenced policies related to their own investments. Al...
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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s path from ‘Backtalker’ to legal scholar
Crenshaw named two of the most contested ideas in American politics: intersectionality and critical race theory. Her new book is called ‘Backtalker: An American Memoir.’ It takes us to her childhood i...
5 Touko 44min
Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart on the isolation of secret-keeping
Like a number of his characters, Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart grew up working class and queer in Glasgow. He went on to have a career in fashion, which plays into his latest novel, Joh...
4 Touko 45min
