Writer Kennedy Ryan uses romance novels as a vehicle for discourse
The romance books Kennedy Ryan read growing up rarely included characters who looked like her. Now she deliberately centers people the genre has left out – like women of color and women with chronic i...
2 Jul 45min
The “bullies of the tick world” are on the hunt
The lone star tick seeks out its blood meal and transmits a potentially dangerous allergy to red meat. ‘New Yorker’ staff writer Burkhard Bilger talks with Terry Gross about his reporting on the tick-...
1 Jul 45min
Banned books, shocking art & the birth of the culture wars
“The culture wars have completely eaten America,” says author Isaac Butler. His new book, ‘The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars,’ looks at how the religious right...
30 Jun 45min
Tennis rivals Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova team up against cancer
Once the most successful women’s tennis champions of their generation, Evert and Navratilova open up about friendship, cancer and retirement in the Netflix documentary ‘Chris & Martina: The Final Set....
29 Jun 45min
Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq
For over a decade, Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible trans women in America. In her new memoir, ‘Transcendent,’ she writes about growing up in Mobile, Ala., and the bullying and harassment ...
27 Jun 47min
Remembering master of the TV sitcom, James Burrows
We remember one of the most sought-after directors in television, James Burrows. He died June 19 at age 85. Burrows worked on many classic sitcoms including ‘Taxi,’ ‘Frasier,’ ‘Friends,’ ‘Will and Gra...
26 Jun 47min
Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration
For more than 50 years, Anna Deavere Smith has pioneered a type of theater built from real people's words, interviewing hundreds of Americans and then performing their words verbatim. Now she's tellin...
25 Jun 45min
"Masculinsim" goes mainstream: a movement to fight feminism
Masculinism is a belief that feminism emasculates men, and men should be in control while women stay at home raising children. Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis says the movement is becoming mainstrea...
24 Jun 44min
