Michael W. Twitty on Honoring His Ancestors Through Food
For the James Beard Award–winning writer and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty, kitchens provide a multitude of significant purposes that stretch far into the past and carry through to the present....
5 Nov 20251h 29min
Camille Henrot on Tapping Into a Boundless Imagination
For the Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot, time practically never stands still. Across her work in film, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation—and soon, live performance—Henrot has...
29 Okt 20251h 18min
Alison Roman on Recipes as Time Capsules
The cook and food writer Alison Roman frequently emanates and celebrates a certain spilled-milk imperfectionism. Her on-camera candor and laid-back cooking style have both contributed to growing her d...
22 Okt 20251h 15min
Olivia Laing on the Pleasures and Possibilities of Gardens
For the British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing, restoring and tending to their backyard garden has prompted complex questions of power, community, and mystery, concepts that they beautifully ...
8 Okt 20251h
Oliver Burkeman on the Power of Embracing Imperfectionism
The British author and journalist Oliver Burkeman has spent decades pondering what it means to live a meaningful life, both in his former Guardian column “This Column WIll Change Your Life” and across...
24 Sep 20251h 7min
Sara Imari Walker on Making Sense of Life, the Universe, and Ourselves
As the physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker—the author of the mind-expanding book Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence—sees it, every single thing on Earth can be traced ...
27 Aug 202553min
James Frey on Designing Your Life to Bring Joy
In 2003, when the author James Frey published his first book, A Million Little Pieces—a gut-punch account of his experience with addiction and rehab—nobody could have expected what would come next. Th...
25 Juni 20251h 16min
Molly Jong-Fast on the Fleeting Nature of Fame
Through her sharp and biting political commentary—whether as host of the podcast Fast Politics, as a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, or as a political analyst on MSNBC—Molly Jong-Fast has, over...
18 Juni 202556min
