September 21, 2023
Zadie Smith on The Fraud
September 7, 2023
Henry at Work
It’s Labor Day week, 2023, and Henry David Thoreau is the heart of our conversation. It’s not with him, but it’s driven by his example:...| More
August 24, 2023
The Cosmic Scholar
Harry Smith was the oddest duck you never heard of in the art underground: an unsightly, often obnoxious genius. Only the artists knew him, but...| More
August 10, 2023
Noam Chomsky: American Socrates
It is said about Noam Chomsky that he has been to the study of language what Isaac Newton was to the study of gravity after...| More
July 27, 2023
The Country of the Blind
In The Country of the Blind, where the writer Andrew Leland is guiding our tour, they do things differently. They have their own identity riddles,...| More
July 13, 2023
Animal Spirits
This is the vitalism episode, with the passionate polymath Jackson Lears. His new book is beyond category, and gripping, too: it’s titled Animal Spirits: The...| More
June 29, 2023
Happy Birthday to Us
We’re marking the 20th birthday of podcasting in conversation with Erica Heilman, a prize practitioner. Here we are with Erica in Peacham, Vermont, settled in...| More
June 15, 2023
Blyth Returns
We’re back in the pub a year later with Mark Blyth, the outspoken political economist at Brown University—which means he works and talks and thinks...| More
June 1, 2023
It Ain’t Over
This week: a show from our archive from The Connection days. “It ain’t over till it’s over.” That’s Yogi Berra’s ageless line, in the title...| More
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
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