Annette Gordon-Reed: Getting History Right
Is Thomas Jefferson to be deplored as a slave-owner who had a family with a young woman he owned or is he to be celebrated as one of the country's most essential and gifted founders? Or, should he be ...
22 Feb 202236min
Tobias Wolff: The Art of the Story
In this episode of Beyond the Page, John Burnham Schwartz speaks with author TOBIAS WOLFF, renowned for his classic memoirs and short stories, for an intimate, wide-ranging conversation about life, li...
28 Dec 202133min
How Lincoln Broke the Constitution
In this episode, John Burnham Schwartz speaks with Noah Feldman, Harvard Law professor and renowned Constitutional scholar, whose groundbreaking new book, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, an...
15 Nov 202147min
Elliot Ackerman on the End of the Forever War
In this episode of Beyond the Page, acclaimed novelist, journalist, and Marine Corps veteran ELLIOT ACKERMAN talks to former CBS News Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Christopher Isham about...
20 Okt 202137min
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Relationship Between Reporting and Storytelling
Welcome to Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Over the past 25 years, SVWC has become the gold standard of American literary festivals, bringing together contemporary wri...
17 Sep 202145min
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan on the Private Life of Francis Bacon
In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, host John Burnham Schwartz talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors MARK STEVENS and ANNALYN SWAN about their landmark biography Francis Bacon: Revelations. MARK S...
15 Aug 202141min
The Education of an Idealist: U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power on Soft Power and Hard Lessons
In this episode of BEYOND THE PAGE, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, human rights activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author SAMANTHA POWER – interviewed in the lead-up to her p...
27 Apr 202154min
Francis Lam's Food For Thought
In this episode, the host of American Public Media’s award-winning radio show The Splendid Table shares with us a few unforgettable food stories from his childhood, along with some of his current thou...
18 Apr 202138min
