All Episodes

S9 Ep. 32 Barry Walters on LGBTQ Music 1969-2000

S9 Ep. 31 Christian B. Miller on The Honesty Crisis

S9 Ep. 30 Rebecca Lehmann on Anne Boleyn, Trump, and Treason

S9 Ep. 29 Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

S9 Ep. 28: Liam Callanan on Trump Vs. the Pope

S9 Ep. 27: Caroline Bicks on Stephen King’s Archives of Horror

S9 Ep. 26 Chris Hadfield on Final Orbit, Artemis II, and the Future of Space

S9 Ep. 25 Kathryn Paige Harden on Behavior, Genetics, and Blame

S9 Ep. 24 Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

S9 Ep. 23 Ellie Roscher on Fair Game and the Future for Trans Athletes

S9 Ep. 22 Jeff Boyd on Cops, Teachers, and Chicago

S9 Ep. 21 Daisy Hernandez on the Myth of Citizenship

S9 Ep. 20 James Sullivan on the Power of Protest Music

S9 Ep.19 Brian Platzer on the Complex Ties Between Teachers and Students

S9 Ep. 18: Yi-Ling Liu on Internet Censorship in China and the U.S.

S9 Ep. 17 Eleanor Shearer on Migrants in Hiding and a Caribbean History of Canada

S9 Ep. 16 Anjali Enjeti on Ballots and How Trump Wants to Steal Them

S9 Ep. 15 Joe Jackson on the Spanish-American War and Trump’s Imperial Ambitions

S9, Ep. 14 Jessica Lopez Lyman on the History of State Violence in Minnesota

S9 Ep. 13: Vauhini Vara with Karan Mahajan on “What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?”

S9 Ep. 12: Matthew Pearl on What We’ll Do For the Prize

S9 Ep. 11: Elizabeth McCracken on Writing About Writing, At Last

S9 Ep. 10: Maya Angelou Book Award Winner Alison C. Rollins on the Poetics of Sound, Space, and Image

S9 Ep. 9: Sven Beckert on the Global History of Capitalism

S9 Ep. 8: Jacob Silverman on the Tech Bros’ Gilded Rage

S9 Ep. 7: Kathryn Nuernberger on Mutualism, Climate, and Finding Family at the End of the World

S9 Ep. 6: Ottilie Mulzet on Translating Hungarian Nobel Prize Winner László Krasznahorkai

S9 Ep. 5: Max Delsohn on the Importance of Portraying Trans Men

S9 Ep. 4: Ben Passmore on the History of Black Resistance

S9 Ep. 3: Jelani Cobb on Race, Politics and the ‘Trayvon Martin Generation’

S9 Ep. 2: Edwidge Danticat on Haiti and Trump, Past and Present

S9 Ep 1: Yiming Ma on the Future of Censorship

S8 Ep 52: Caleb Gayle on Black Settlers in the American West

S8 Ep. 51: Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire

S8 Ep. 50: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald in Mexico

S8 Ep. 49: Patrick Ryan on ‘The Good Heart’ of Buckeye

S8 Ep. 48: Jennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs on Great American Road Trip Books

S8 Ep. 47: Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin’s Love Stories

S8 Ep. 46: Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

S8 Ep. 45: Barbara Kingsolver on Supporting Appalachian Women Recovering from Addiction

S8 Ep. 44: Vanity Fair’s Dan Adler on Jeffrey Epstein and What Ghislaine Maxwell Knows

S8 Ep. 43: Gary Shteyngart on Vera, or Faith and American Authoritarians

S8 Ep. 42: Ed Park on An Oral History of Atlantis

S8 Ep. 41: Raina Lipsitz on Mamdani, DSA, and the Rise of a New Left

S8 Ep. 40: Dina Nayeri on Iranian Life Under Attack

S8 Ep. 39: Ernesto Londoño on the Personal Cost of Minnesota’s Political Killings

S8 Ep. 38: Geoff Dyer on His New Memoir, Homework

S8 Ep. 37: Jess Walter on the American Family Unplugged

S8 Ep. 36: Susan Choi on Flashlight

S8 Ep. 35: Paul Elie on Art, Faith, and Sex in 1980s America–and the New Pope

S8 Ep. 34: Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap

S8 Ep. 33: Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

S8 Ep. 32: Hamilton Nolan on DIY Opinion Writing

S8 Ep. 31: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe on Trump’s South African Connection

S8 Ep. 30: Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity

S8 Ep. 29: Vauhini Vara on AI, Art, and Memory

S8 Ep. 28: Sheila Sundar on International Scholars

S8 Ep. 27: Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University

S8 Ep. 26: Alex Higley on True Failure and Shark Tank

S8 Ep. 25: Edmund White on The Loves of My Life

S8 Ep. 24: Curtis Sittenfeld on Show Don’t Tell

S8 Ep. 23: Karen Weingarten/Abortion Stories Before Roe v. Wade

S8 Ep. 22: Novelists Suzette Mayr and Kai Thomas on Canada Versus Trump

S8 Ep. 21: Nicholas Fandos on New York Politics, Eric Adams, and Trump

S8 Ep. 20: Journalists Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker on Trump and his Tech Oligarchs.

S8 Ep. 19: Thomas Dai on Mapping, Naming, Borders, and Immigration

S8 Ep. 18: Lan Samantha Chang on the Risks and Rewards of Literary Personas

S8 Ep. 17: Sarah S. Grossman on the Los Angeles Wildfires

S8 Ep. 16: Charles Baxter on the Dangers of Knowing the Future

S8 Ep. 15: Ream Shukairy on Syria After Assad

S8 Ep. 14 REBROADCAST: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on Percival Everett and American Fiction

S8 Ep. 13: Ellie Palmer and Elle Everhart on the Rise of Romance

S8 Ep. 12: Journalists Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on Trump and Ukraine

S8 Ep. 11: Molly Redden on Trump’s Plan to Seize Spending Power

S8 Ep. 10: Carvell Wallace on Love, Survival, and Endings

S8 Ep. 9: REBROADCAST: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

S8 Ep. 8: Ruben Reyes Jr. on Trump's Plans for Mass Deportation

S8 Ep. 7: Maggie Tokuda-Hall on Project 2025’s Plans For Book Bans

S8 Ep. 6: Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Puerto Ricans, Trump, and the Election

S8 Ep. 5: Jess Walter on the Election

S8 Ep. 4: Stephen Markley on The Deluge to Come

S8 Ep. 3: Anne Curzan on Our Changing Language

S8 Ep. 2: Jeff Sharlet on ‘Sanewashing’ and Fascism

S8 Ep. 1: Lola Milholland on the Housing Crisis and Communal Living

S7 Ep. 52: Myriam J.A. Chancy on Haitian American Communities

S7 Ep. 51: Ellen Emerson White on the First Woman President, Real and Imagined

S7 Ep. 50: Thomas Frank on How the Harris-Walz Ticket Can Win Red State Voters

S7 Ep. 49: Alissa Quart on J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

S7 Ep. 48: Joshua Kaplan on AP3 and the Future of American Militias

S7 Ep. 47: Iris Jamahl Dunkle and Kelly McMasters on Biographical Ethics

S7 Ep. 46: Francine Prose on What 1974 Can Teach Us About 2024

S7 Ep. 45: Jasmin Graham on Understanding Sharks

S7 Ep. 44: Ellie Palmer and Elle Everhart on the Rise of Romance

S7 Ep. 43: Harry Siegel on the Supreme Court, Bribery, and Scofflaws

S7 Ep. 42: Sally Franson and Emily Nussbaum on Reality TV

S7 Ep. 41: Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

From the Archives: S1 Ep. 6: Kiki Petrosino and Jess Walter on All the President's Shakespeare

S7 Ep. 39: Maxim Loskutoff on the Unabomber and the Myth of the American West

S7 Ep. 38: Nicolás Medina Mora on Mexico’s First Woman President and the Country’s Political Future

S7 Ep. 37: Karen Solt on Being Gay in the Navy, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ and Hiding for Her Life

S7 Ep. 36: Akuna Robinson on Going the Distance With Through Hiking

S7 Ep. 35: Remembering Alice Munro: Jonny Diamond on His Mother and the Great Canadian Writer

S7 Ep. 34: Prizes and Protests: Monica Youn on PEN, Activism at Literary Awards, and Gaza

S7 Ep. 33: Polycules and Cuddle Piles: Brandy Jensen on the Mainstreaming of Polyamory

S7 Ep. 32: This Strange Eventful History: Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

S7 Ep. 31: Come Together: Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World

S7 Ep. 30: Cashing in on the White Bonus: Tracie McMillan on Privilege, Generational Wealth, and the Myth of Colorblindness

S7 Ep. 29: There’s Going to Be Trouble: Jen Silverman on Generational Divides in American Politics

S7 Ep. 28: How We Talk About Cancer: S.L. Wisenberg on Kate Middleton and the Language of the Big C

REDUX: S7 Ep. 27: David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse

S7 Ep. 27: David Baron on What Literature Tells Us About the 2024 Eclipse

S7 Ep. 26: En Vogue: Sally Franson on Fashion and Literature

S7 Ep. 25: Ivy Pochoda on Iowa Basketball Star Caitlin Clark and Women Athletes in Popular Culture

S7 Ep. 24: Lessons for Survival: Emily Raboteau on Mothering and Climate Change

S7 Ep. 23: Alabama’s Embryos: Briallen Hopper on the Personal and Political Consequences of the New IVF Court Decision

S7 Ep. 22: Hit ’Em Where It Hurts: Rachel Bitecofer on Democratic Strategies to Counter Republicans in the 2024 Election

S7 Ep. 21: The Road From Belhaven: Margot Livesey and What Literature Can Tell Us About The Future

S7 Ep. 20: ‘They Want What We Have’: Matt Gallagher on Supporting Ukrainians' Struggle for Liberation

S7 Ep. 19: American Fiction: Jacinda Townsend and James Bernard Short on the Joy, Pathos, and Complexity of Black Experience in the Oscar-Nominated Film

S7 Ep. 18: AWP 2024 Preview: Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

S7 Ep. 17: ‘What is History?’: Ed Park on Korea’s Past, Real and Imagined

S7 Ep. 16: Former Biden Speechwriter Nate Rawlings on Claudine Gay, Neil Gorsuch, and the Politics of Plagiarism

S7 Ep. 15: Bookstores Against Bans: Lauren Groff on Opening The Lynx in Florida

S7 Ep. 14: Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the Model Minority Myth: Prachi Gupta on the Rise of Indian American Presidential Candidates

S7 Ep. 13: Holiday Archives: Danez Smith on Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship

S7 Ep. 12: The Best Books Machine: Lydia Kiesling on Making the Lists—or Not

S7 Ep. 11: The Free and the Freed: Tracy K. Smith on Liberty

S7 Ep. 10: Chicago in Verse: Taylor Byas on Writing About Her Hometown

S7 Ep. 9: American Farce: Timothy Schaffert on the Literary Parallels for the House GOP Clusterf**k

S7 Ep. 8 Indigenous Imaginations: Native American Writers on Their Communities

S7 Ep. 7: American Precariat: Zeke Caligiuri on the Incarcerated Writers Who Edited An Anthology on Class

S7 Ep. 6: Jordan Peele’s Out There Screaming: Lesley Nneka Arimah on Why Black Horror Speaks to Us Now

S7 Ep. 5: Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict

S7 Ep. 4: Writing Gentrification: Jonathan Lethem on Brooklyn Now and Then

S7 Ep. 3: Freeman’s: Conclusions: John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

S7 Ep. 2: The Return of #MeToo: Rebecca Makkai on New Allegations and the Progress of the Past Five Years

S7 Ep. 1: The AI Pirates: The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner on Books3, Copyright, and How Big Tech is Stealing Our Books

S6 Ep. 52: Librarians Against Book Bans: Brooklyn Public Library’s Leigh Hurwitz on Helping Young People Resist Censorship

S6 Ep. 51: Art Under Fire in Ukraine: Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding as the Fighting Drags on

S6 Ep. 50: The African Coups: Leila Aboulela on Why They Happen, and the Violence in Sudan

S6 Ep. 49: Georgia’s Fani Willis Takes on Trump: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the History of Powerful Black Women Challenging the Establishment

S6 Ep. 48: Is Kansas the Future of Press Censorship?: Sherman Smith on the Police Raid at a Small-Town Newspaper

S6 Ep. 47: Lit Hub’s American Vacation: Novelist Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

S6 Ep. 46: How Progressives Win: Journalist Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

S6 Ep. 45: The Kids Are Not All Right: Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

S6 Ep. 44: The Summer of Love or Hate: Dawnie Walton on American Concert Culture

S6 Ep. 43: X Marks the Spot: Robin Sloan on Social Media After Twitter

S6 Ep. 42: SCOTUS vs. MFA: Jaswinder Bolina on How the End of Affirmative Action Will Affect Writing Program Admissions

S6 Ep. 41: Owner of a Lonely Heart: Beth Nguyen on Memoir, Mothering, and Refugeedom

S6 Ep. 40: In Memory of Cormac McCarthy: Oscar Villalon on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

S6 Ep. 39: The Kids Are at Work: Jean Kwok On Recent Efforts to Loosen Child Labor Laws and Her Years as a Child Worker in New York

S6 Ep. 38: Everybody Hates Joe: Jacinda Townsend on Why Democrats Are Skeptical of President Biden—and What He Must Do To Win Them Back

S6 Ep. 37: Lights, Camera, White House: Matt Quirk on the Enduring Power of the West Wing in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Film

S6 Ep. 36: Time, Trump, and Trauma: Matt Bell Talks Living on a Political Mobius Strip

S6 Ep. 35: Cancel Club: Jane Roper on Online Shame, Responsibility, and Fame

S6 Ep. 34: Rising from the Ashes: Felix Salmon on the Debt Ceiling Crisis and the Surprising Resilience of the COVID Economy

S6 Ep. 33: The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

S6 Ep. 32: The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

S6 Ep. 31: Ready Player One: B.J. Best, Andrew Ervin, and Brittney Morris on Video Games, Storytelling, and the Importance of Play

S6 Ep. 30: Ralph Yarl, Defunding Libraries, and (Re)Writing Kansas City: José Faus, C.J. Janovy, and Desideria Mesa on the Importance of Crafting New Narratives in a Divided City

S6 Ep. 29: Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike

S6 Ep. 28: An American Experiment: Jeff Boyd on Race, Music, Religion, and Love in Contemporary Portland

S6 Ep. 27: Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

S6 Ep. 26: The Literature of QAnon: From 4chan to January 6, Will Sommer on Reading the Authors of Conspiracy Theories

S6 Ep. 25: Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

S6 Ep. 24: Iraq 20 Years After the U.S. Invasion: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on Iraqi Perspectives on the War and What Western Media Missed

S6 Ep. 23: Letters to a Writer of Color: Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro on Finding Community With Each Other

S6 Ep. 22: More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme, and the Chinese Spy Balloon

S6 Ep. 21: Kingdom Quarterback: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd on Race, Kansas City Football, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes

S6 Ep. 20: Remembering an American Writer: Anthony Walton on James Alan McPherson’s Essays and Legacy

S6 Ep. 19: The Lives of the Wives: Carmela Ciuraru on Marriage, Writing, and Equity

S6 Ep. 18: This Other Eden: Paul Harding on Imagining Our Integrated Past

S6 Ep. 17: Chatbot vs. Writer: Vauhini Vara on the Perils and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence

S6 Ep. 16: In Memory of Russell Banks: Rick Moody on an Iconic Writer’s Life, Work and Legacy

S6 Ep. 15: Vintage Contemporaries: Dan Kois on the Joys and Sorrows of Literary New York in the 1990s and 2000s

S6 Ep. 14: Brotherless Night & Friends: V.V. Ganeshananthan with Curtis Sittenfeld and Whitney Terrell on Editing A Work in Progress

S6 Ep. 13: Lit Hub’s Favorite Books of 2022, with Emily Temple and Katie Yee

S6 Ep. 12: The Legacy of ISIS: Dunya Mikhail on Yazidi Women Captives in Iraq

S6 Ep. 11: The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, featuring Michael Knight

Introducing Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare

S6 Ep. 10: White Horse: Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

S6 Ep. 9: With the Ancestors: Buki Papillon on African Folklore and Wakanda Forever

S6 Ep. 8: Live from Writers for Readers in Kansas City: Alexander Chee on Editing Best American Essays 2022

S6 Ep. 7: The Talented Mr. Musk: Dan Chaon on Twitter, Identity, and Imposters

S6 Ep. 6: Nancy Pelosi’s Majority: Matthew Clark Davison’s San Francisco Take on a National Leader

S6 Ep. 5: The Author of Election on the Election: Tom Perrotta on Tracy Flick’s Return and the Midterms

S6 Ep. 4: Women Resisting Terror in Iran: Porochista Khakpour on the Historic Protests Against the Islamic Republic of Iran

S6 Ep. 3: Pakistan Under Water: Aamina Ahmad on Disaster and Despair After the Historic Floods

S6 Ep. 2: Crime Without Punishment: How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

S6 Ep. 1: Between Fiction and Autofiction: Elizabeth McCracken on Discussing Private Grief in Public

S5 Ep. 43: Forging Immigrant Identity in Florida: Jonathan Escoffery Talks About How Belonging Shifts Across Generations

S5 Ep. 42: Frenemies of the State: Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

S5 Ep. 41: On Time and Meaning: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us about Today

S5 Ep. 40: Book the Vote: Rachel DeWoskin on Registering Voters (Right Now!) and the Connection Between Writing and Democracy

S5 Ep. 39: The Long Shadow of Colonialism: Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah on German Conquest in East Africa and His Latest Novel, AFTERLIVES

S5 Ep. 38: Chinese Conquest and Two Sisters Who Rebelled: Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

S5 Ep. 37: Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

S5 Ep. 36: Remembering Afghanistan’s Wars: Jamil Jan Kochai on Shifting Storytellers and Forms

S5 Ep. 35: The Fall of Boris Johnson: Margot Livesey on British Politics, the Brexit Blunder, and the Prime Minister’s Lies

S5 Ep. 34: The New Homeless: Emi Nietfeld on the Growing Number of Unhoused Americans

S5 Ep. 33: The Politics of Craft: Charles Baxter on How His Essays on Writing Respond to a Changing World

S5 Ep. 32: Happy Bastille Day: Will the Center Hold in France? Should It?

S5 Ep. 31: What Do Dems Do Now?: Thomas Frank on How the Left Can Counter a Rogue Supreme Court

S5 Ep. 30: The Literature of Star Wars: Van Lathan Jr. on How American Life Shapes and Is Shaped by a Galaxy Far, Far Away

S5 Ep. 29: ‘A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand’: Héctor Tobar Reflects on the 30th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots

S5 Ep. 28: The Prose Version of That Blue Steel Look From Zoolander: V.V. Ganeshananthan Dishes on Blurbs, Jacket Copy, Cover Art, and All the Dark Arts of Publishing a Book

S5 Ep. 27: ‘Gun Violence Has Traumatized All of Us’: Amye Archer on the Long History of Mass Shootings

S5 Ep. 26: ‘Let Me Say It With All My Heart: This is Such Bullshit’: Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis

S5 Ep. 25: A Change of Fortune: Sunila Galappatti on the #GotaGoHome Protests in Sri Lanka

S5 Ep. 24: Live from Unbound: Steve Paul and Henry Schvey on How Evan S. Connell and Tennessee Williams Never Really Left Missouri

S5 Ep. 23: The Brothers Chao: Lan Samantha Chang on Food, Family, and New Ways of Imagining Asian American Narratives

S5 Ep. 22: Live from Unbound: Alex George on the ‘Absolutely Extraordinary Journey’ of Running a Book Festival

S5 Ep. 21: Live from Unbound: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu on Affirming and Subverting Pop Culture in Fiction

Introducing Storybound

S5 Ep. 20: ‘A Spiritual-Industrial Complex’: SJ Sindu on Writing the Life of a Child God

S5 Ep. 19: ‘The Danger is Larger Because the Voice is Bigger’: Alexandra Billings on What’s Behind the Surge in Anti-Trans Legislation

S5 Ep. 18: ‘Unlivable and Untenable’: Molly McGhee on the Punishing Life of Junior Publishing Employees

S5 Ep. 17: ‘We’re There to Bear Witness’: Putsata Reang on Reporting in War Zones

S5 Ep. 16: ‘One of the Worst Places on Earth’: Mansoor Adayfi on the 20th Anniversary of Guantánamo Bay Prison

S5 Ep. 15: ‘Forget What You Know About War’: Scott Anderson on What Russia’s Wars in Chechnya Tell Us About the Invasion of Ukraine

S5 Ep. 14: ‘They Didn’t Know Which Way to Go’: Katya Soldak Sheds Light on the Plight of the Ukrainian People

S5 Ep. 13: Censoring the American Canon: Farah Jasmine Griffin on Book Bans Targeting Black Writers

S5 Ep. 12: Intimate Contact: Garth Greenwell on Book Bans and Writing About Sex

S5 Ep. 11: 'The Award is the Book: Randall Mann on Poetry Awards, Contests, and Diversity'

S5 Ep. 10: ‘How on Earth Do You Judge Books?’: Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Real Story Behind Literary Awards

S5 Ep. 9: ‘Likes Do Not Count’: Anton Troianovski and Marci Shore on Why Russia’s ‘Post-Truth’ Aggression Toward Ukraine Matters to All of Us

S5 Ep. 8: Exceeding Surge Capacity: Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

S5 Ep. 7: Complicity, Corruption, and Accountability: Asali Solomon on The Days of Afrekete and the January 6 Investigation

S5 Ep. 6: Immigration in Europe: Nadifa Mohamed on Belarus, Brexit, and the EU’s Accelerating Racism Towards Migrants of Color

S5 Ep. 5: The Internet Giveth, the Internet Taketh Away: Pamela Paul and Cecilia Kang on What We’ve Lost and Gained (But Mostly Lost) in the Age of Social Media

S5 Ep. 4: Live From the Miami Book Fair 2021: Joshua Ferris on the Great Recession, Writing About Capitalism, and A Calling for Charlie Barnes

S5 Ep. 3: Live From the Miami Book Fair 2021: Ha Jin on China, Taiwan, and A Song Everlasting

S5 Ep. 2: The Country Roads Ahead: Julia Elliott and DaMaris B. Hill Consider the Future of Rural Writing

S5 Ep. 1: WTF, Texas … Again?: Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger on SB8, the History of Abortion, and Roe v. Wade in Danger

S4 Ep. 26: Bullshit Saviors: Helen Benedict and Nadia Hashimi on Depictions of the American Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

S4 Ep. 25: Tolstoy Forever: Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li on Retweeting a Russian Classic

S4 Ep. 24: Obama Era Redux: Nawaaz Ahmed on Islam, Sexuality, Politics, and Publishing His First Novel

S4 Ep. 23: From the Mouths of Babes: Wayne Miller and Elizabeth Gaffney on Writing About Children in Uncertain Times

Fiction/Non/Fiction Presents Wondery's True Love

S4 Ep. 22: Why Be A Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books

S4 Ep. 21: Fiction/Non/Fiction at 100 Episodes: Whit, Sugi, and Special Guest Jabari Asim Reflect on the Podcast’s Indelible Interviews and Controversies From the Past Four Years

S4 Ep. 20: ‘Goldfish Memory’: Adam Serwer on Critical Race Theory and the Very American Fear of Owning up to Our Racist Past and Present

S4 Ep. 19: A Cycle of Disappearance: Shir Alon and Joseph Farag On How Palestinian and Israeli Literature Has Handled the Ongoing Conflict

S4 Ep. 18: In the Soup: Sean McDonald and Monica West On Publishing During, and After, a Pandemic

S4 Ep. 17: Biden Boom? Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess

S4 Ep. 16: Making It New: Michael Kleber-Diggs and Kao Kalia Yang on How Minnesota's Famed Literary Scene is Reacting to Racial Injustice at Home

S4 Ep. 15: Workshop Politics: Matthew Salesses on Centering Traditionally Marginalized Writers

S4 Ep. 14: This Is Who We Are: Gish Jen and Peter Ho Davies on the Long History of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.

S4 Ep. 13: Cancel Culture or Consequences Culture?: Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature and Media

S4 Ep. 12: WTF, Texas?: Lacy M. Johnson and Natalia Sylvester on Surviving the Recent Storm and Unraveling the Whitewashed Myth of Texas

S4 Ep. 11: COVID Doesn't Know Boundaries: Uzodinma Iweala, Bindu Shajan Perappadan and Suhasini Raj on How African Countries and India Have Handled COVID-19

S4 Ep. 10: 'A Certain Kind of Hunger': Chang-rae Lee on Writing About Connection While We're Worlds Apart

S4 Ep. 9: Making Good: Tracy K. Smith and Kawai Strong Washburn On Biden's Debts to His Base (Especially Black Women)

S4 Ep. 8: Our Lies: Jenny Offill and James Plath on Conspiracy Theories in History and Literature

S4 Ep. 7: The Facts of Life: Claire Messud and Brendan O'Meara on Creative Nonfiction in an Era of 'Fake News'

S4 Ep. 6: Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

S4 Ep. 5: Disability in America: Molly McCully Brown and Rebekah Taussig On Living and Writing Thirty Years After the Americans with Disabilities Act

S4 Ep. 4: Life After Trump: Jess Walter and Jerald Walker on the Aftermath of Election 2020

S4 Ep. 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Myth-Making

S4 Ep. 2: We're in a Scary Movie, and It's Called 2020: emily m. danforth and Laura van den Berg Discuss Literary Horror and Our Upcoming Election

S4 Ep. 1: Fifteen Years After Katrina: Kristina Kay Robinson and Tom Piazza Discuss How the Hurricane Shaped Our Past and Predicted Our Future

S3 Ep. 26: The Past Is Never Dead: Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Michael Gorra on the 'New South' and Whether Faulkner Still Belongs There

S3 Ep. 25: No Innocents Abroad: Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and U.S. Provocateurs in Foreign Politics

S3 Ep. 24: Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolinda on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed

S3 Ep. 23: We've Been Here Before: Kaitlyn Greenidge and Russell Banks on the Past and Present of Protest and White Backlash

S3 Ep. 22: The Unpopular Tale of Populism: Thomas Frank on the Real History of an American Mass Movement

S3 Ep. 21: Breaking the Mold: Christopher Buckley and Sara Paretsky on Reinventing Genre

S3 Ep. 20: Aiming to Heal When There Is No Cure: Daniela Lamas and C. Dale Young on Doctoring and Our Pandemic Future

S3 Ep. 19: Black Stories Matter: Terrion Williamson and Jabari Asim on Narrative During the George Floyd Protests

S3 Ep 18: On Feminism and Fictionalized Histories: Curtis Sittenfeld Tackles Centrism, Clintonism, and All Things ‘Hillary Rodham'

S3 Ep. 17: Poetry, Prose, and the Climate Crisis: John Freeman and Tahmima Anam on Public Space and Global Inequality

S3 Ep. 16: Solitude Versus Sociability: David Means and Candace Bushnell on Being Alone and Making Connections

S3 Ep. 15: Poetry, Blackness, and Friendship: Danez Smith on Language, Connection, and 'Homie'

S3 Ep. 14: Alternate Histories and Silenced Women: Sue Monk Kidd on Her New Novel The Book of Longings

S3 Ep. 13: Literature in the Face of COVID-19: Rigoberto González and Deb Olin Unferth on Writing and Teaching in a Time of Crisis

S3 Ep. 12: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Rebecca Solnit on Her Memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence

S3 Ep. 11: Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Chavisa Woods on the Sanders Campaign, Race, and Gender

S3 Ep 10: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease

S3 Ep. 9: All the President's Henchmen: Susan Choi and Garrett Graff on Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, and the Long History of Henching in Politics and Literature

S3 Ep. 8: Who Can Be A Citizen?: Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi on Hindu Nationalism, Exclusion, and Belonging in Modi's India

S3 Ep. 7: Live at the Miami Book Fair: T.C. Boyle on Writing About LSD and Outside Looking In

A Holiday Re-Broadcast

S3 Ep. 6: The Language of Abuse: Rene Denfeld and Megan Phelps-Roper on Private and Public Violence in the Trump Era

S3 Ep. 5: Live at the Miami Book Fair: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

Where's my new Fiction/Non/Fiction episode?

S3 Ep. 4: Wild Life: Tucker Malarkey, Will Bardenwerper, and Stan Brewer on Hope and Conservation

S3 Ep. 3. Horror in the Headlines: Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy on Scary Stories

S3 Ep. 2. The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

S3 Ep. 1: The Secret Lives of Editors: Rakesh Satyal, Brian Birnbaum, & M.K. Rainey on the World of Editing

26: In Hong Kong, A Movement Grows: Javier C. Hernández and Xu Xi on the City's Battle With Beijing

25: An American Abroad: Deborah Landau and Mathangi Subramanian on Expat Writing

24. On Whiteness Part 2: Jess Row and Timothy Yu Talk Writing About Race

24. On Whiteness Part I: Jess Row and Timothy Yu Talk Writing About Race

23: The Iranian Revolution at 40: Jasmin Darznik and Dina Nayeri On the Anniversary of the Republic

22: Space is the Place: Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Mary Anne Mohanraj on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11's Moon Landing

21: The Military in a Time of Trump: Elliot Ackerman and Anuradha Bhagwati on the Armed Services Past and Future

20: A Court Supreme: Irin Carmon and Jay Wexler on Writing About SCOTUS and Justice in Fiction and Nonfiction

19: Podcasting Pro Tips and Jonny Diamond on Creating LitHub Radio

18: Slouching Toward Gilead: Anjali Enjeti and Lacy Johnson on the new anti-abortion laws

17: Against Genre Snobbery: Marlon James and Daniel José Older on the Intersections of Literary and Genre Writing

16: Democrats in the Bardo: George and Paula Saunders on Politics and Writing

15: Emily Raboteau and Omar El Akkad Tell a Different Kind of Climate Change Story

14: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Lit Mags (And Likely More)

13: Fiction/Non/Fiction: March Madness Edition

12: Trans is Not New: Gender in Writing

11: Academy Awards Season Episode

10: Indigenous Imaginations: Native American Writers on Their Communities

9: Can I Get A Witness: God and Faith in American Fiction

8: Notice Me: How Literary Publicity Works

7: Bich Minh Nguyen on the Refugee Experience of Holiday Narratives

6: Athletes, Politics, and Power: With Steve Almond, Mark Leibovich, and Etan Thomas

5: Madeline Miller on Circe, Homer, Translation, and Adaptation (recorded live at the Miami Book Fair)

4: Edmund White and Emily Temple on Writers vs. Writers

3: Jane Coaston and Alexander Chee on Politics, Storytelling, and the Midterms

2: Idra Novey and Esmé Wang Talk Mental Health and Writing

1: MFA vs. Everything

26: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity

25: Nathaniel Rich and Juliana Spahr: As the World Burns, Trump Tweets

24: All About the Green: Getting That Big, Fat Writer's Advance

23: James Traub and Margot Livesey on Decency vs. Moral Weakness

22: Alice Bolin and Kristen Martin on the Problem With Dead Girl Stories

21: Mira Jacob and Pamela Paul Talk Reboots & Superheroes

20: #FamiliesBelongTogether: a Conversation

19: Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres, Part II

18: Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres

17: The Return of Socialism in America?

16: Fate and Fortune: What Are We Responsible For

15: So, Who's Funny in the Age of Trump?

14: All Fiction is Crime Fiction

13: At the Intersection of Nationalism, Religion, and Social Media

12: #Neveragain and the Hope of Student Protest

11: Annihilation, Adaptation: What's It Really Like to Have Your Book Made Into a Movie

10: Anti-Semitism and the Authoritarian Playbook

9: A Whole New Kind of Obscenity?

8: Literary Color Lines

7: How Has Literary Life Changed in 20 Years? With Curtis Sittenfeld and Oscar Villalon

6: All the President's Shakespeare

5: The New Culture Wars: Higher Ed Edition

4: We're All Russian, Now

3: The Power of Facebook: How Big is Too Big?

2: Jia Tolentino and Claire Vaye Watkins on Abuse, Harassment, and Harvey Weinstein

The Art of Kneeling: Colin Kaepernick Edition