June 1, 2023
It Ain’t Over
May 16, 2023
A Working Life with Eileen Myles
The line is intoned now as a sort of chapter heading in our literary-artistic history: Eileen Myles grew up in Boston/Cambridge and moved to New...| More
May 4, 2023
Failing Intelligence
We’re humbled—we’re also scared—by the power of chatbots like GPT-4 to do pretty much everything that word people have ever done, but faster and maybe...| More
April 19, 2023
Frozen Moments with Ed Koren
Here’s a last burst of wind in our sails, a last gentle guffaw, from a listener we came to adore: the cartoonist Ed Koren. You...| More
April 6, 2023
How William James Can Save Your Life
William James, thinker and writer, was known widely in the nineteenth century as the adorable genius who invented American pragmatism. He was a brain scientist,...| More
March 23, 2023
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
There’s nobody quite like Sonny Rollins in the All-American sound and story of jazz. He was a teenager in Harlem in the 1940s when major...| More
March 9, 2023
This Other Eden
Out of the blue a decade ago, Paul Harding won a huge popular following, first, and then the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his modern...| More
February 23, 2023
Norman Mailer Turns 100
“Don’t forget” is a mantra in our shop: “don’t forget” specially the characters, the moments that made us. Norman Mailer is the spirit-seeker and sometimes...| More
February 9, 2023
A Radical American Life
Lydia Moland is reminding us that when present company in American public life comes up short, the ancestors of American democracy and spirit are lurking...| More
January 26, 2023
Thank You, Patrick Lydon
This is family talk in rural Ireland toward the end of an extraordinary life. My brother Patrick was the youngest of six, the saint among...| More
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