186. Thomas Jefferson: Radical, Revolutionary, Enslaver -- Annette Gordon-Reed
For this first episode in the Radicalism in the American Revolution series, historian Annette Gordon-Reed joins me to discuss her new book Jefferson on Race, a collection of writings by Jefferson on t...
29 Apr 39min
184. The Horizontal Transcendence of the Everyday -- Clare Carlisle
How do you know your life is worthwhile? How do you connect to the world around you? What sort of life is worth living?In her new book, Transcendence for Beginners, the philosopher and biographer Clar...
15 Apr 52min
183. Mrs. Orwell -- Andrea Chalupa
Eric Blair, known as George Orwell, had all of his successes after he met and married Eileen O'Shaughnessy. The graphic novel Mrs. Orwell, written by Andrea Chalupa, is the story of how George Orwell ...
1 Apr 44min
182. A Door Into Ocean -- Joan Slonczewski
Joan Slonczewski joins me to discuss their novel A Door Into Ocean, a science fiction novel about an all-female society of "sharers" on an ocean planet, Shora. Joan's sharers are one of the best specu...
18 Mars 50min
181. The Language of Incompleteness -- Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri joins me to discuss his new collection of essays, Incompleteness. In these essays and his novels, Amit is constantly searching for new language that will acknowledge the instability and...
11 Mars 1h
180. Aurora -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson comes back to discuss Aurora, his novel of a generational starship, in which generations of humans are born, live, and die onboard without ever seeing a planet. We discuss the gen...
25 Feb 1h
179. Socialism from Bernie to Mamdani -- Dan Chiasson
Dan Chiasson joins me to discuss his combined Bernie and Burlington biography, Bernie for Burlington, and the connections between Bernie's socialism and Mamdani's socialism.You can purchase Dan's book...
4 Feb 57min
