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Nasty Women
Mike Wallace, Greater Gotham
Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
Jesmyn Ward on 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'
Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander
Kurt Andersen, Fantasyland
Raoul Peck, "I Am Not Your Negro"
Ayobami Adebayo on her debut novel "Stay With Me"
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn: Rigorous Rationality
How Judy Collins Conquered Her Cravings
Lynn Nottage & Sweat
Immigrant Stories—Min Jin Lee with Simon Winchester
Phillip Glass, Words Without Music
Janet Mock, Surpassing Certainty
Inside the Work and Mind of Nick Cave
David Grann
Tracy K. Smith, New U.S. Poet Laureate
Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom (Part 2: Demagogues of American History)
Jelani Cobb, The Half-Life of Freedom (Part 1: The Media and Alternative Facts)
Alec Baldwin
Journalism in the Age of Trump, part 2
Jane Mayer, Winner of the Bernstein Award
George Packer and Reihan Salam with Tony Marx
Syria's Human Side, with Janine di Giovanni
Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Bernstein Award Finalist
The Librarian Is In: American Passions
Lawrence Krauss w/ Alan Alda. Reality, the Real Story
Gary Younge, Bernstein Award Finalist
Like Passover, But Funnier
Sonia Shah & Pandemic, Bernstein Award Finalist
Women's and Girls' Lives Matter
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear with Dr. Ofri and Mary Harris
Etgar Keret, the Rock and the Hard Place
Journalism in the Age of Trump
Civil Rights Journeys Across Generations
Casanova: Seduction and Genius in Venice
Hugh Ryan on the Queer Histories of Brooklyn's Waterfront
Emmett Till: True Stories of An American Tragedy
George Washington and the Hyper-Partisan Now
New York Never Built
Art Spiegelman on How He Sees Himself, Becoming a Devotee to Another Artist, and the Artist After Art
Our Compelling Interests: A Panel on Diversity and Democracy
Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Garnette Cadogan, Suketu Mehta, and Luc Sante on Phone Maps, Libraries, and Walking
Michael Chabon and Richard Price on Plot, Secular Judaism, and Remembering to Make Stuff Up
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Paul Krugman on Fake News, Lying Candidates, and What Public Intellectuals Need to Do
James McBride on James Brown and NYC
Sarah Sze on Scale, Gravity, and Value
Robbie Robertson on Six Nations Inspiration, Bob Dylan, and Goals of the Soul
Wole Soyinka on Hollywood, Reparations, and Morgan Freeman
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Margo Jefferson on Understanding Uncle Tom's Cabin
Marina Abramović and Debbie Harry on Doubt and Diaries
Tim Wu on How the Internet Is Not Really Free
Margaret Atwood on Shakespeare in the 21st Century and on YouTube
Mona Eltahawy and Yasmine El Rashidi on White Feminism and the Privilege to Protest
Sally Mann on Cy Twombly and the Babushkas Who Saved Russian Art
Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky on Money and The Sickest Joke in the History of Humankind
Alan Cumming on Memory, Gore Vidal, and Monica Lewinsky
Edwidge Danticat on Silence, Bridging Audiences, and Participating in Stories
Werner Herzog on Death, Executioners, and Advice for Filmmakers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Walter Mosley on Empire, English, and Beethoven
Maggie Nelson & Wayne Koestenbaum on Clarity & Cruelty
Colson Whitehead on "The Underground Railroad" & Poker
Kevin Young & Gabrielle Hamilton on Food & Poetry
Siddhartha Mukherjee on Genetics & Storytelling
Laurie Anderson on Melville, Opera, and Mystery
Derek Walcott on Hemingway, the Caribbean, & First Love
John Lithgow & James Shapiro on Guy Fawkes & Falling for Shakespeare
The World in Words Presents: From Ainu to Zaza
Geoff Dyer on Class in America
Bruce Davidson & Matt Dillon on Lasting Impressions
Padma Lakshmi on NYC & the Greatest Gift
Jill Leovy on Murder in America
Maya Lin on Memorializing What Is Missing
Åsne Seierstad on the Deadliest Attack on Norway Since WWII
The Bad Rap of Do-Gooders: Larissa MacFarquhar
Helen Mirren on Women's Roles & Taking on Shakespeare
Dan Ephron: When The Man Who Almost Changed Israel Met Bill Clinton
Rosanne Cash on Shakespeare, Performing, & Poetry
Dale Russakoff: When Facebook Tried to Save Newark
Robert A. Caro & Frank Rich on Power & Corruption
Elizabeth Alexander & Hilton Als on Dreams & Obsession
Nathaniel Kahn & Matt Mountain on Outer Space & Weird Science
Dana Spiotta on Good People, Heroes, & Writing
Darryl Pinckney & Zadie Smith on Achievement & Beyoncé
Jhumpa Lahiri on Language & Disorder
Debbie Harry with Chris Stein on Beatniks, the Stillettoes, & Style
The Future of Black History
Russell Simmons & Rick Rubin on Music & Meditation
Yusef Komunyakaa on Politics, Imagery, & Memorizing Poetry
Toni Morrison and Angela Davis on Connecting for Progress
Francine Prose on YouTube, Sentences, & War
Junot Díaz on Intimacy & the Game of Fiction
Sharon Olds & Cynthia Nixon on Dickinson, First Drafts, & Selfhood
David Hare on Theater, Anticipation, & Hitchcock
Nico Muhly & Ira Glass on Composers & the Internet
Neil Gaiman Reads "A Christmas Carol" (Rebroadcast)
Timbaland on Mantronix, Reinvention, & Kids
Edmund de Waal on Porcelain, Time Travel, & Sound