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Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady — 256 episodes
The Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust with Judy Batalion
Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence Inside Us
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom with Ilyon Woo
Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism
How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment with Anthony Kronman
The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work with Claudia Rankine
Billy Collins on the Small Poem
A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King Jr
Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State with George Packer
What Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American Dream
Has Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong? with Daniel Pink
Dr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on Survival
A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America with John Wood Sweet
Prophet of Freedom with David Blight
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom with Ilyon Woo
What Does It Mean to Be Human with Lori Gottlieb
Shorts #23 - A Quick Look at What's New
Study That Defined How We Diagnose Mental Illness with Susannah Cahalan
The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer with Dr. Azra Raza
The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen with David Brooks
JTRB Shorts #22 - A talk with Bethanne Patrick
How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America with Gretchen Morgenson
JTRB Shorts #21 - A quick look at what's new
The 2023 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
JTRB Short #20 - New York Times Top 10 Best Sellers
Democracy Awakening with Heather Cox Richardson
JTRB Shorts #19 - A quick look at what's new
Enough with Cassidy Hutchinson
JTRB Shorts #18 - A quick look at what's new
The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher With John Sargent
JTRB Shorts #17 - A quick look at what's new
Time’s Echo with Jeremy Eichler
Cooking My Way: Live with Jacques Pépin
Banned Books
JTRB Shorts #16 - A quick look at what's new
My Life As A Cosmic Rock Star with Cydny Bullens
JTRB Shorts #15 - A quick look at what's new
The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to be Good with Elise Loehnen
JTRB Shorts #14 - A quick look at what's new
How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment with Anthony T. Kronman
JTRB Shorts #13 - A quick look at what's new
The Land of Hope and Fear with Isabel Kerschner
JTRB Shorts #12 - A quick look at what's new
Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain with Dasha Kiper
JTRB Shorts #11 - A quick look at what's new
Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. with Alan Murray
JTRB Shorts #10 - A quick look at what's new
Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure
JTRB Shorts #9 - A quick look at what's new
A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz
JTRB Shorts #8 - A quick look at what's new
Children of the State with Jeff Hobbs
JTRB Shorts #7 - A quick look at what's new
Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed [replay]
JTRB Shorts #6 - A quick look at what's new
The Critics Daughter with Priscilla Gilman
JTRB Shorts #5 - A quick look at what's new
A Walk of Memory and Renewal with Neil King
JTRB Shorts #4 - A quick look at what's new
An Epic Story from Slavery to Freedom with Ilyon Woo
JTRB Shorts #3 - A quick look at what's new
Every Family Has A Story with Julia Samuel
JTRB Shorts #2 - A quick look at what's new
American Women and the Fight for Equality with Elisabeth Griffith
JTRB Shorts #1 - A quick look at what's new
Unscripted by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams
Courtney Maum on Exploring Depression and Forgiveness Through Horseback Riding
Billy Collins on the Small Poem
Looking back at Paul Newman and The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
Jacques Pepin and The Art of the Chicken
The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Why Is Samuel Adams the Forgotten Founding Father?
How the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the Generations
Dani Shapiro: How Writing Fiction Can Expose More of Yourself Than Writing Memoir
How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History
David Dennis, Jr.: Why American Civil Rights Activists Should Be Treated as War Veterans
Tina Brown: While the Monarchy Will Not End, It Will Shrink Nevertheless
Anthony T. Kronman on How to Find God in a World Full of Disappointment and Disenchantment
How Do We Eradicate the Great Challenge of Our Age: Unconscious Bias and Discrimination?
Elizabeth Alexander: How Do You Keep Yourself Safe But Not Live in Fear?
Julie Orringer and Rebecca Frankel: Why We Still Need to Tell the Stories of the Holocaust
Zain Asher: Never Let the Perception of Yourself Hold You Back
What Should You Read This Summer?
Linda Greenhouse on When the Republican Party Was the Party of Reproductive Choice
Senator Chris Murphy: How Do We Solve the Violence Inside Us
Sunita Puri: Why a Life Well Lived Is a Good Death
Anna Quindlen: You're Never Alone When You Read Great Novels
Has Our Thinking About Regret Been All Wrong?
Introducing Storybound
Barry Nalebuff: Don't Fight Fire With Fire; Fight Fire With Water
Freedom Must Still Be Defended: Remembering Madeleine Albright
Nick Davis on Writing Himself Into a Biography–And Taking Himself Out
Amy Bloom: Grief is the Price You Pay for Love
Senator Will Haskell on Why We Should Feel Optimistic About Politics
Beth Macy on the Future of Families and Communities in the Opioid Epidemic
Oliver Burkeman on What It Means to Be Finite Creatures With Infinite Minds
Sarah Ruhl on Why We Should Love Imperfection and Asymmetry
Ending the Year With Bishop Michael B. Curry
Dorie Greenspan Still Finds Joy in Baking
The 2021 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Who Does the Supreme Court Belong to Now?
Kati Marton Observes the Transformative Power of Angela Merkel
Jessica Nordell on What We Don't Realize About Unconscious Bias
Robert Draper on the Smoldering Wreck of Foreign Policy Still Alive Today
Evan Osnos on Collective Intervention and Moments of Social Transition
Bill Goldstein Has Some Thoughts on What You Should Read Next
Anne Sebba on Ethel Rosenberg's Early Days
George Packer on Redefining "American" and the Inequalities of the State
Robert Ballard, the Man Who's Discovered More Than Just the Titanic
Ursula Burns on the Dangers of Exceptionalism
What Professional Poker Taught Maria Konnikova About the American Dream
Gigi Georges on the False Narratives of Rural America
Sherry Turkle on Why Some Stories Take Time
Judy Batalion on the Emotional Legacy of the Holocaust
Can We Salvage Patriotism? Should We?
Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism
Bishop Michael B. Curry on Hopeful Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement
Janice P. Nimura on the Case for Admiring "Unlikable" Women
The 2020 Holiday Gift Guide Episode!
Ijeoma Oluo, Leslie Gray Streeter, and Jennifer Palmieri on Writing—and Thriving—in a World of Mediocre White Men
Dr. Edith Eger Has Some Thoughts on Survival
Claudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work
How Reading Hemingway Shaped John McCain’s Honor Code
Mark Salter on Why the Republican Party’s Future Is Bleak
NPR’s Guy Raz Is Cheering You On
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman on Racism Manifesting in Friendships
Annik LaFarge on Chasing Chopin Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
We Need to Give Everyone Permission to Feel Things
Has America Ever Had a Unified Vision of Itself?
Senator Chris Murphy on Who's to Blame For Rioting in American Cities
Jenny Odell: There Is No Work Without Care and Maintenance
James Forman Jr. Talks Crime and Punishment in Black America
Lisa Taddeo on the Discovery-Making of Immersive Journalism
Steve Luxenberg: We Need to Rethink Precedents
Dr. Sunita Puri on Moving Towards the Difficulty in Ourselves
Casey Schwartz: The Disillusions of an Adderall World
Dan Heath: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen
David Kamp on the Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
Richard Haass on Why History Matters
Bess Kalb on How Comedy Saves Her
How Can We Stay Human in a F*cked Up World?
Dr. Beverly Tatum: Are We More Color Blind or Just Color Silent?
Mitchell S. Jackson: This Isn't Our Eden and Never Will Be
Tara Westover: Why Tell Your Story Now?
What Would the Founding Fathers Say About America Today?
Julia Samuel: How Do We Process Grief?
Robert Kolker Takes Us Inside the Mind of an American Family
Dr. Azra Raza on the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer
David Blight on the Prophet of Freedom
How Can Boys Truly Move Forward as Better Men? Peggy Orenstein on Navigating the New Masculinity
Anne Bogel: Stop Overthinking Everything!
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans on How to Thrive and Find Happiness at Work
Mitchell S. Jackson on Holding Up a Mirror to Whiteness
Kate Murphy: When Was the Last Time You Really Listened to Someone?
Dr. Sunita Puri on the Human Costs of Suffering
Erik Larson on How Winston Churchill Still Shows Us True Leadership During Political Turmoil
Richie Jackson on What It Takes to Be Gay in America Right Now
Sylvia Ann Hewlett on #MeToo in the Corporate World
Richard Stengel on How to Save Our Democracy
Ada Calhoun on Defining the Midlife Crisis for Women
Gail Collins on the Adventures of Older Women in American History
How Beck Dorey-Stein Ended Up at the White House From a Craiglist Ad
How Should We Define Free Speech at Universities? Wesleyan President Michael Roth Argues for "Safe Enough Spaces"
Stephen A. Schwarzman on What It Takes to Be Successful
Just the Right Book: Special Holiday Episode!
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Most Intimate Evil of Enslavement
Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton on The Book of Gutsy Women
How Do We Escape Family Secrets? Adrienne Brodeur on Her New Memoir
Mo Rocca on His New Book That Brings New Life to Forgotten Stories
Susannah Cahalan on the Study That Defined How We Diagnose Mental Illness
What Do We Give Our Children? Tim O’Brien Contemplates Fatherhood and Writing
Steve Luxenberg: "Race is Our National Conversation"
Do Brains Have a Gender? Gina Rippon Debunks the Myth
James B. Stewart on Going Inside the "Deep State"
Tatiana Schlossberg Wants You to Be Less Serious About Climate Change
What Does It Mean to Be Human? Lori Gottlieb on the World of Therapy
How Do You Become Racist? Alexandra Fuller on Her Childhood in Rhodesia
Is the World More or Less F*cked Up Than It Used to Be? Tim Desmond on Mindfulness Practices for Real Life
How Do We Write About Grief? Jayson Greene on Life After Trauma
How Doing Nothing May Be the Best Way to Focus on the Real World
Was the Last Pirate of New York City Its First Gangster?
Brenda Wineapple on What We Can Learn From the First Impeachment
Lisa Taddeo on the Female Perspective of Sexuality
One on One with the Author of "The Silent Patient"
Searching for America's Moral Imagination & "The Common Good"
Meet the Hosts of "The Librarian Is In"
Former Obama Staffer Talks Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Bonus: Live with Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright: Redefining Fascism
God, Rebellion, & The Beatles; A Coming-Of-Age Story
E10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now!
Dani Shapiro Uncovers Cathartic Family Secret in Latest Memoir
The One Book That Offers 5 Principles to Being Fearless!
Michelle Obama in Her Own Words: An Excerpt from "Becoming"
Dorie Greenspan's Perfect New Year's Eve Menu!
How to Make the Ultimate Cheese Plate!
What The Founding Fathers Would Say About America Today
The Origins of "Outlander" with Author Diana Gabaldon
Inside "The Witch Elm" with Tana French
Steve Jobs' Daughter Finds Her Own Voice in Revealing New Memoir
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
"Paper Chase" Author's Latest Novel Explores a Fractured Love Story
Past #MeToo: Constraints & Imbalances That Shape Women's Lives
How Doing Nothing Can Make You More Productive
Anne Bogel Would "Rather Be Reading"; Lithub.com's Book Picks & More
Senator John McCain in His Own Words: A Tribute
Sarah Jessica Parker Talks New Imprint, SATC’s Impact on Women & More
Mark Salter on McCain's Legacy, Presidential Run & His Vision for America
John McCain's Co-Author, Mark Salter on a Great American Patriot
Gail Honeyman Says "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine"
Storytelling Tips & Tricks From a Moth Champion
Is This Your (Financial) Year?
“I Don't Know How She Does It” Author Does It Again!
EMichael Chabon: A Look at Fatherhood & Writing
Beyond #MeToo: Addressing Gender Roles in the Workplace
Tara Westover: From Harrowing Childhood to Cambridge PhD
Rachel Kushner Goes Inside a Women’s Prison in “The Mars Room”
Re-release: Our Very First Episode with Luvvie Ajayi
Re-release: Asking "Ask Amy" About her New Memoir
Re-release: Our Guest Elizabeth Strout
James Forman Jr. Talks Slavery and His Own Surprising Prejudices
James Forman Jr. on Political Activism
"Tiger Mom” Amy Chua Does It Again
Is Democracy in Danger?
8 Simple Steps to Help You Through Grief
EAmy Bloom Reads From "White Houses"
YOU May Be Related to Hillary Clinton
5 Books From Bustle; A Biofiction on Eleanor Roosevelt's Secret White House Romance
A.J. Jacobs Reads from "It's All Relative"
Marriage and the Art of Living Together
Dear Match Book; Min Jin Lee's "Pachinko" Live
Inside the WSJ's Book List; Jeff Goodell's "The Water Will Come"
Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?"
Isabel Allende Finds Love “In the Midst of Winter”
"Mad Men" Creator Talks Rejection, Tenacity & Debut Novel
A True Story of Heroism in Nazi-Occupied Paris
Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
Claire Messud Reads From "The Burning Girl"
Cheryl Strayed...Into the "Wild" & On to Advice Columns
"Hamilton" Author's Latest Bio Uncovers a Heroic U.S. Grant
"The Burning Girl" Blisters With Growing Pains
25 Books That Will Change Your Life
Elizabeth Strout Knows "Anything is Possible"
An Exciting Retelling of a Classic Greek Tragedy
Inside the Language of Women's Friendships
John Grisham One on One
Sarah Dunn Talks Open Marriage, Autism and "The Arrangement"
Charles Duhigg on Being "Smarter, Faster & Better"
Dani Shapiro on "Time, Memory & Marriage"
Kimberly Williams-Paisley Finds Light After Loss
Jason Stanley tells us "How Propaganda Works"
Amy Dickinson says "Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things"
Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear...and Why
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
Kidnapped and Displayed as Circus Freaks in the Jim Crow South