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Politics and Prose Presents — 596 episodes

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1

Sara Hall — For the Love of the Grind: A Memoir - with Lahaina Mae Mondoñedo

2

Manil Suri — A Room in Bombay: A Memoir - with Rabih Alameddine

3

Virginia Richards — The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway - with Dr. Frederick Knight

4

Zach Powers — THE MIGRAINE DIARIES - with Hannah Grieco

5

Sarah Isgur — LAST BRANCH STANDING: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today's Supreme Court - with Jonathan Karl

6

Chandrani Ghosh — HEARTLINES: A Love Triangle - with Kathleen Matthews

7

Lanny J. Davis — Finding the Third Way: Lessons in the Politics of Civility from My Journey Through History - with Carl M. Cannon & Michael McCurry

8

Nancy Lemann — The Oyster Diaries - with Terence Monmaney

9

Susan Page — The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History - with Susan Glasser

10

Nicholas Enrich — Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID - with Atul Gawande

11

Kat Rosenfield — How to Survive in the Woods: A Novel - with Ben Dreyfuss

12

Noam Scheiber — Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class - with Franklin Foer

13

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson — Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance - with Rachel Levinson-Waldman

14

Peter S. Canellos — Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement - with Kimberly Wehle

15

Marion Winik — First Comes Love: A Memoir - with Susan Coll

16

Nora Lange — Day Care: Stories - with Tope Folarin

17

Michael Edison Hayden — Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town - with Jared Holt

18

Sara Ahmed — No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining - with Soraya Chemaly

19

Dr. Trisha Pasricha — You've Been Pooping All Wrong: How to Make Your Bowel Movements a Joy - Ann Compton

20

Jennifer Mandula — The Geomagician: A Novel - with Camila Domonoske

21

Amin Ahmad — A Killer in the Family: A Novel — with Angie Kim

22

Connor Martin — THE SILVER FISH - with I.S. Berry

23

Frank Thorp V — After the Riot - with Pete Williams

24

Tikia K. Hamilton — Nothing Less Than Equality: The Battle over Segregated Education in the Nation's Capital (Historical Studies of Urban America) - with George Derek Musgrove

25

Sana Javeri Kadri & Asha Loupy — The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook: Seasonal Home Cooking from South Asia's Best Spice Farms - with Joe Yonan

26

Nicholas Lemann — Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries - with Franklin Foer

27

Andrew Graham-Dixon — Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found

28

Bruce Friedrich — Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity's Favorite Food—and Our Future - with Nicolás Rivero

29

Jacob Mchangama & Jeff Kosseff — The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom - with Ashkhen Kazaryan

30

Yann Martel — Son of Nobody

31

Daniela Gerson — The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II - with Amanda Katz

32

Khiara M. Bridges — Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans - with Akilah Johnson

33

David Pogue — Apple: The First 50 Years

34

Anna Harwell Celenza — On the Record: Music that Changed America

35

Joshua Hotaka Roth — Life Lines: Art, Memory, Relationship - with Mark Auslander

36

Emily Galvin Almanza — The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender's Search for Justice in America - with Congressman Jamie Raskin

37

David Blumenthal and James A. Morone — Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science - Senator Richard Blumenthal

38

Katrina Manson — Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare - with Gary Marcus

39

T. Kingfisher — Wolf Worm

40

Eoghan Walls — Field Notes from an Extinction - with Leeya Mehta

41

Elizabeth Heider — Children of the Savage City - I.S. Berry

42

Olivier Sylvain — RECLAIMING THE INTERNET: How Big Tech Took Control- And How We Can Take It Back - with Nancy Scola

43

Erin McGoff — The Secret Language of Work: Hyper-Helpful Scripts for Every Situation - with Hannah Williams

44

Anand Gopal — Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution - with Victor Blue

45

Terence Ward & Idanna Pucci — EMILIO PUCCI: THE ASTONISHING ODYSSEY OF A FASHION ICON - with Sara Gay Forden

46

Sujata Massey — The Star from Calcutta (A Perveen Mistry Novel #5) - with Vera Kurian

47

Anne Fadiman — Frog: And Other Essays - with Isaac Arnsdorf

48

Janice Page — Year of the Water Horse: A Memoir - with A.M. Homes

49

Maya L. Kornberg — STUCK: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress - with Angela Greiling Keane

50

Jung Yun — All the World Can Hold - with Lauren Francis-Sharma

51

James Traub — CRADLE OF CITIZENSHIP: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy - with Valerie Strauss

52

Lindy West — Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane - with Ronald Young Jr.

53

Jeffrey Katz — Unsettled Ground: Reflections on Germany's Attempts to Make Amends - with Michelle Brafman

54

Bob Crawford — America's Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick - with Robert Costa

55

Cass R. Sunstein — Separation of Powers: How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times

56

David J. Silverman — The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

57

Jessica Ann Levy — Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics (Politics and Culture in Modern America) - with Marcia Chatelain

58

William H. Lamar — Ancestors: Those Who Bless Us, Curse Us, and Hold Us - with Dana A. Williams & Michael Eric Dyson

59

Simona Supekar & Anjali Enjeti — Stock Photo & Ballot - with Sunu P. Chandy

60

Lorissa Rinehart — Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress - with Cynthia Richie Terrell

61

Brian Platzer — The Optimists: A Novel - with Matthew Yglesias

62

Khameer Kidia — Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone - with Bina Venkataraman

63

Jason G. Green — TOO PRECIOUS TO LOSE A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility - WITH Joshua DuBois

64

Camonghne Felix — Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom

65

Michael Leach — Faith Over Fear: Harnessing Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty - with Marcus Goodwin

66

Kate Brown — Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City - with Tom Philpott

67

Patrice Nganang — Scale Boy: An African Childhood

68

Rachel Taff — PAPER CUT: A NOVEL - with Brittany Kerfoot

69

Dan Chiasson — BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON - with Kevin Ellis

70

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner — Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist - with Stephen Fishbach

71

Marisa Kashino — Best Offer Wins: A Novel - with Rachel Kurzius

72

Meg Bortin — The Rites of Man - with Serge Schmemann

73

Jazmine Ulloa — El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory - with Jia Lynn Yang & Hamed Aleaziz

74

Jenna Blum & Christopher Castellani — Murder Your Darlings & Last Seen

75

Deborah Goodrich Royce — Best Boy - with Victoria Christopher Murray

76

Daisy Hernández — Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth - Lupita Aquino

77

Lauren Groff — Brawler: Stories - with Danielle Evans

78

Daniel Neep — Syria: A Modern History - with Ariel I. Ahram

79

A Tribute to Book World

80

susan abulhawa — Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide - with Laila Al-Arian

81

Andrew Yang — HEY YANG, WHERE'S MY THOUSAND BUCKS?: And Other True Stories of Staggering Depth - with Nancy Scola

82

Oliver Munday — HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD - WITH Andrew Ridker

83

Bianna Golodryga - Don't Feed the Lion - in conversation with Dana Bash

84

Julie M. Norman — Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare - with Pam Bailey

85

Andrew S. Curran — Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson

86

Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow — HOW EQUALITY WINS: A New Vision for an Inclusive America - with Kelley Robinson

87

Alia Hanna Habib — Take It from Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch - with Nicole Chung

88

Marc Shaiman — Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner - with Murray Horwitz

89

Lee C Bollinger — University: A Reckoning - with Adam Liptak

90

Ashley Rose Young - Nourishing Networks: The Public Culture of Food in New Orleans - with Corby Kummer

91

Patmeena Sabit — Good People: A Novel - with Donna Hemans

92

Mary Helen Washington — Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life (Black Lives) - with Soyica Diggs Colbert

93

Bsrat Mezghebe — I Hope You Find What You're Looking For - with Glory Edim

94

HEATHER ANN THOMPSON — Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage - with E.J. Dionne Jr.

95

Wil Haygood — The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home - with Sheryll Cashin

96

Elliot Williams — Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York's Explosive '80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation - with Dana Bash

97

Eswar S. Prasad — The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder - with Binyamin Appelbaum

98

Alice Gerrard — Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music (American Music: New Roots) - with Maureen Loughran

99

Jon Ralston — THE GAME CHANGER: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight - with Major Garrett

100

Roddy Bottum — The Royal We - with Rich Morel

101

Thomas Zeitzoff — No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis -with JJ Green

102

J. Lester Feder — The Queer Face of War: Portraits and Stories from Ukraine - with Chris Geidner

103

Eric L. Lewis — Leaving Guantanamo: How One Country Brought Its Men Home from the Forever Prison -with David Remnick

104

C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost — A Black Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning History)

105

Lachi — I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power - with Maria Town

106

Eugene Robinson — Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America

107

Brooke N. Newman — The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas - with Cassandra Good

108

Lily Meyer — The End of Romance: A Novel - with Hillary Kelly

109

John Sayles — Crucible

110

Cheryl W. Thompson — Forgotten Souls - with Leonard Downie Jr.

111

Gabriel Sherman - BONFIRE OF THE MURDOCHS: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family and the World - WITH JULIA IOFFE

112

Jason Zengerle — Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind - with Jonathan Martin

113

Stephen Fishbach — Escape! - with Dalton Ross

114

Lisa Gail Collins & Glexis Novoa - ART & HISTORIES - with Kaira M. Cabañas

115

Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres & David H. Plylar — Let the People Hear It: One Hundred Years of Concerts at the Library of Congress

116

Dick Harpootlian — Dig Me a Grave: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South - with Josh Dawsey

117

Michael O’Hanlon — TO DARE MIGHTY THINGS: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution - with Bradley Graham

118

Daniyal Mueenuddin — This Is Where the Serpent Lives - with Varun Gauri

119

Caitlin Vincent — Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future - with Chelsea Denni

120

Brian Soucek — The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education - with Mary Anne Franks

121

Chloe Yelena Miller — PERFORATED - with Rose Solari

122

DOROTHY A. BROWN — Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past - WITH Errin Haines

123

Rachel Eliza Griffiths — The Flower Bearers - with Carolyn Forché

124

Dr. Ashely Alker — 99 WAYS TO DIE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

125

Emily Mendenhall — Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVI

126

Andrew Burstein — Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History

127

Bruce Goldfarb — The Worst Day: A Plane Crash, A Train Wreck, and Remarkable Acts of Heroism in Washington, DC - with Bryan Sears

128

Rebecca Goldstein — The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us - with Franklin Foer

129

W. Ralph Eubanks — When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land - with Vann R. Newkirk II

130

Seth Levine & Elizabeth MacBride — Capital Evolution: The New American Economy -with Lori Montgomery

131

Katie Benner and Erica L. Green — Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises - with Vanita Gupta

132

Gayle Feldman — Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built - with Kitty Kelley

133

Karl Ove Knausgaard — The School of Night: A Novel - with Tope Folarin

134

Christine Kuehn — Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor with Liza Mundy

135

Lauretta Malloy Noble & LeeAnét Noble — Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America - with Morgan Menzies

136

Edmund Ghareeb — Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance - with Samar Najia

137

Jacob Soboroff — Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster - with Geoff Bennett

138

The Best American Poetry 2025 (The Best American Poetry series)

139

Steve Israel — The Einstein Conspiracy - with Chuck Todd

140

Jen Percy — Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation - with Rachel Louise Snyder

141

Judith Enck — The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It's Too Late - with Vann R. Newkirk II

142

Mary Clare Jalonick — Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th - with Manu Raju

143

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD — Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life - with Kara Swisher

144

Nia Sioux — Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life - with Yasmine Cheyenne

145

Eric Lichtblau — American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate

146

Neil Shea — Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic - with Peter Gwin

147

Frank Van Riper, Judith Goodman — THE GREEN HEART OF ITALY

148

Robert M. Dowling — Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard - with Jackson R. Bryer

149

Alex Elle & Libby DeLana — JOY IN ACTION

150

Oyinkan Braithwaite — CURSED DAUGHTERS - with Tope Folarin

151

50 Years of Project Censored: State of the Free Press - Panel with Ryan Grim, Lauren Harper, John Kiriakou, Mischa Geracoulis, Joe Lauria - moderated by Mickey Huff

152

MaKshya Tolbert — Shade is a place - with Lauren Russell

153

Terence Keel — The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence - with Dr. Michele Goodwin

154

Sharon Cornelissen — The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit (Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries) - with Janneke Ratcliffe

155

Ty Seidule & Connor Williams — A Promise Delivered: Ten American Heroes and the Battle to Rename Our Nation's Military Bases

156

Annie Elliott — My Neighbor Saw Me Naked and Other Reasons You Need Drapes: The Essential Decorating Handbook - with Jason Reynolds

157

Mirta Ojito — Deeper Than the Ocean - with Julia Sweig

158

Walter Isaacson — The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

159

Christina Kovac — Watch Us Fall: A Novel - with Angie Kim

160

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - TERRY DACTYL - with Jennifer Natalya Fink

161

Peter Buck Feller — The Last Gasp of William Schwarzfeller: Soviet Espionage and the Cruelties of Stalin's Gulags - with Dr. Carole Sargent

162

Chris Matthews — Lessons from Bobby: Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters - with Margaret Carlson

163

Steve Vogel — A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir--And Honor Back Home - with Ferdinand Protzman

164

Pam Bailey — We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth - with Zeina Azzam

165

Ray D. Madoff — THE SECOND ESTATE — with Dina Temple-Raston

166

Shadi Hamid — The Case for American Power - with Dr. Samuel Kimbriel

167

Lyse Doucet — The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan - with Eric Weiner

168

Sarah Weinman — Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime - with Molly O'Toole

169

Simon Winchester — The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind - with Kirk Johnson

170

Amanda Vaill — Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution - with Elisabeth Griffith

171

Rep. Jim Clyburn — The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation - with Norman Ornstein

172

Vanessa Williamson —The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History - With Dorian Warren

173

Brian Schaefer – TOWN & COUNTRY: A NOVEL- with Marisa Kashino

174

Jacquelyn Jackson — The Female Rogue: A Memoir of Living Fiercely - with Ellen McDonnell

175

James Geary — The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition

176

Susan Cheever — When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever — with Molly Jong-Fast

177

Soraya Chemaly — All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy - with Rachel Louise Snyder

178

Colin Woodard — Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America

179

George Packer — THE EMERGENCY — with Jeffrey Goldberg

180

Matthew Davis — A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore - with Vann R. Newkirk II

181

RACE IN AMERICA PANEL — With April Ryan, Nikole Hannah-Jones & Don Lemon

182

INNER LOOP PANEL: IN THE AUTHORS CORNER —with Kyoko Mori

183

Judith Resnik — Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy - with Kristin Henning

184

Dagomar Degroot — Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System - with Rebecca Helm

185

Carson Faust — If the Dead Belong Here - with Morowa Yejidé

186

Mark Z. Danielewski — Tom's Crossing

187

Jelani Cobb — Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025

188

Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis — INJUSTICE - with Mary Louise Kelly

189

Rosemary Ndubuizu — The Undesirable Many: Black Women and Their Struggles Against Displacement and Housing Insecurity in the Nation's Capital - with Sabiyha Prince

190

Tim Wu — The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity - with Cecilia Kang

191

Richard Bell — The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

192

Charlie Mackesy — Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm - with Nora Krug

193

Jonathan Karl — Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America — with Katherine Faulders

194

Lance Richardson — True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen - With Carl Hoffman

195

Margaret Hutton — If You Leave — with Alexandra Zapruder

196

Lindsay Merbaum — Vampires at Sea - with Vera Kurian

197

Brandon M. Terry — Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement - with Clint Smith

198

Celeste Marcus — Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art - with Leon Wieseltier

199

Nicholas Thompson — The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports - with James Fallows

200

Jeffrey Rosen — The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America

201

Jonathan Freedland — The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany - and the Spy Who Betrayed Them - with Franklin Foer

202

Dorie McCullough Lawson & Michael Hill — History Matters

203

Lisa Graves — Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights - with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

204

Joe McGinniss Jr. — Damaged People: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons - with Molly McCloskey

205

Ken Belson — Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL Into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut - with Josh Levin

206

AMBER SPARKS — Happy People Don't Live Here: A Novel - WITH SHANNON SANDERS

207

Myriam Gurba — Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings - with Lupita Aquino

208

Andrew Ross Sorkin — 1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation - with Mike Allen

209

Leland Vittert — Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism - with Chris Cillizza

210

Beth Macy — Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America - with Andrea Pitzer

211

Joanne Molinaro — The Korean Vegan: Homemade: Recipes and Stories from My Kitchen - with Daniela Galarza

212

Julia Ioffe — Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy - with Sabrina Tavernise

213

Susan Orlean — Joyride - with Marion Winik

214

In the Garden of Memory: A Family Memoir — Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) in conversation with Peter L.W. Osnos

215

Danny Goldberg — Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles - with David Corn

216

Joshua Clark Davis — Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back - with Judy Richardson

217

David Nasaw — The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II - with Kai Bird

218

John Fabian Witt — The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America - with David Cole

219

Michael Twitty — Recipes from the American South - with Aaron Hutcherson

220

Brandon Taylor — Minor Black Figures - with Yuri Long

221

Moisés Naím — Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masse

222

Pamela S. Nadell — Antisemitism, an American Tradition - with Senator Ben Cardin

223

Adam Johnson — The Wayfinder - with Ray Nayler

224

Stefan Fatsis — Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary - with Josh Levin

225

Celebrating Fifty Years of Capitol Hill Poetry

226

Marion Orr — House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. - with Congressman G.K. Butterfield

227

Mo Daviau — Epic and Lovely: A Novel - with Kelly Sather

228

Thea Riofrancos — Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism -WITH Dharna Noor

229

Ken Stern — Healthy to 100: How Strong Social Ties Lead to Long Lives - with Michel Martin

230

John U. Bacon — The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald - with Robin Wright

231

Jake Tapper — Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War - with David Ignatius

232

Randi Weingarten — Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy - with Valerie Strauss

233

Cory Doctorow — Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It - with Rohit Chopra

234

Kanza Javed — What Remains After a Fire - with Natasha Japanwala

235

Jodi Mitchel Tolman — ONE FROM EACH COLUMN: My 46-Year Trek From Abusive Childhood To Elusive Motherhood - with Leslie Morgan Steiner

236

Jennifer Anne Moses — You've Told Me Before - with Susan Crawford

237

Tamar Shapiro — Restitution - with Susan Coll

238

Christopher C. Gorham — Matisse at War

239

Teach-In on Climate Change in the Era of Trump — with Neela Banerjee, Manish Bapna, and Monica Medina - moderated by Ally Coll

240

Tom Johnson — Driven: A Life in Public Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN - with Judy Woodruff

241

Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez — Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World

242

Robert Malley — Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine - with Ishaan Tharoor

243

Jane LeavY — Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It - with Mike Rizzo and Stefan Fatsis

244

Reality Winner — I Am Not Your Enemy - with Dina Temple-Raston

245

John J. Lennon — The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us - with Tom Jackman

246

Nate Soares — If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All - with Jon Wolfsthal

247

Stephen Greenblatt — Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival - with Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper

248

Patricia Lockwood — Will There Ever Be Another You - with Emma Sarappo

249

Quill R. Kukla — Sex Beyond Yes: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone - with Dr. Vanessa Wills

250

Steven Pinker — When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

251

Rachel Kolb — Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice - with Kristen Harmon

252

Kate Haulman — The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America - with Karin Wulf

253

Robin Davis — Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light - with Jummy Olabanji

254

Keisha N. Blain — Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights - with Glory Edim

255

Christian Davenport — Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race - with Ian Shapira

256

Stanley Andrisse, Elhadji Ndiaye, Tenaj Moody, William Freeman, & Mancy Thompson — Breaking Chains, Building Futures: Pathways to Redemption, Education, and Excellence

257

David Gelles — Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away - with Teddy Schleifer

258

Sasha Bonét — The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters - with Glory Edim

259

Trymaine Lee — A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America - with Yamiche Alcindor

260

Eric Foner — Our Fragile Freedoms - with Jamelle Bouie

261

Chet'la Sebree — Blue Opening - with Thea Brown

262

Jeannie Vanasco — A Silent Treatment - with Jung Yun

263

Susan Morrison — Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - with Jonathan Capehart

264

Beverly Daniel Tatum — Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times - with Ayesha Rascoe

265

Ani Dasgupta — The New Global Possible: Rebuilding Optimism in the Age of Climate Crisis - with Justin Worland

266

Ken Miller — High Finance - with Neal Wolin

267

Dan Wang — Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future - with Derek Thompson

268

Peter Brannen — The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World - with Ross Andersen

269

Eileen Flanagan — Common Ground: Stories of Resistance and Healing from the Movement to Protect the Earth

270

Joshua Page & Joe Soss — Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice - with Nazgol Ghandnoosh

271

Scott Anderson — King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

272

Michael Shaikh — The Last Sweet Bite: Stories and Recipes of Culinary Heritage Lost and Found - with Sarah Yager

273

Princess Joy L. Perry — This Here Is Love

274

Anna Barrington — The Spectacle - with Eleanor Stern

275

Antonio Michael Downing — Black Cherokee

276

Elaine U. Cho — Teo's Durumi - with Alice Stephens

277

Scott McGill & Susannah Wright — The Aeneid - with Nandini Pandey

278

LaShawn Harris — Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City - with Dr. Sharita Thompson

279

Kevin Young — Night Watch: Poems - with Steve Lickteig

280

Nicholas Boggs — Baldwin: A Love Story - Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

281

Cass Sunstein — On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom

282

Miriam Toews — A Truce That Is Not Peace - with Ron Charles

283

Peter Cozzens — Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West - with Ronald Collins

284

Dr. Ray Dorsey and Dr. Michael Okun — The Parkinson's Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment - with Joanne Kenen

285

Howard W. French — The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide - with Kimberly Atkins Stohr

286

DeMaurice Smith — Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America's Game - with Dave Zirin

287

Leonard Downie — The Future of Local News: A Turning Point - with Sarabeth Berman

288

Nina Willner — The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood

289

Mark Doten — Whites: Stories - with Shannon Sanders

290

Noliwe Rooks — Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children - with Adam Harris

291

Community Teach In: The Role of the States in Preserving and Advancing U.S. Democracy - with Maryland Governor Wes Moore

292

Katie Simon — Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault - with Leslie Morgan Steiner

293

Jonathan Lackman & Zachary J. Pinson — The Woman With Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was - with Alex Hart

294

Ed Park — An Oral History of Atlantis - with Angie Kim

295

Introduction to Afrofuturism Panel - with DuEwa Frazier, Alan King, Victoria Moten & Christian M. Hines

296

Dr. Cat Dawson — Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists Is Shaping the Memorial Landscape - with Charlotte Ickes

297

Garrett Graff — The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

298

Holly Mason Badra — Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora - with Heba El-Shazli

299

Jeremy Gordon — See Friendship - with Megan Garber

300

Naomi Xu Elegant — Gingko Season - with Hasan Dudar

301

Rax King — Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong

302

Fara Dabhoiwala — What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea - with Ronald Collins

303

Sarah Pekkanen — The Locked Ward - Alex Finlay

304

Jill Dougherty — My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin - with Alex Marquardt

305

Pelle Dragsted — Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy - with Joe Guinan

306

Ben Mattlin — Unbound: Notes from a Reluctant Disability Activist - with Joel Michael Reynolds

307

Aatish Taseer — A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile - with Ishaan Tharoor

308

Driven to Write Panel - with Julius Hobson, Jane Leavy, Robert Pinsky & Nazila Fathi

309

Peter Mendelsund — Exhibitionist: 1 Journal, 1 Depression, 100 Paintings & Weepers - with Adrienne LaFrance

310

Scott Ellsworth — Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

311

Michael Grunwald — We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate - with Susan Glasser

312

Allen Carroll — Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-based Narratives

313

Sarah Stein Lubrano — Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds - with Alexandra Petri

314

Lynne Olson —The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp - with Liza Mundy

315

Michael Grynbaum — Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America - with Ashley Parker

316

Dana A. Williams — Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship - with Greg Carr

317

Adam Aleksic — Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language - with Aidan Walker

318

Michael Ansara — The Hard Work of Hope - with Heather Booth

319

Guy Gugliotta — Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan - with Charles Lane

320

Molly Beer — Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution

321

James Grady — American Sky

322

Tim Weiner — The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century - with Dana Priest

323

Haley Cohen Gilliland — A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children - with Bradley Graham

324

Jill Bialosky — The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother - with Marion Winik

325

Gary Shteyngart — Vera, or Faith - with Angie Kim

326

Christine Brennan — On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports

327

Lawrence Burney — No Sense in Wishing: Essays - with Hanif Abdurraqib

328

Kate Myers — Salty - with Mimi Montgomery

329

Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager & Isaac Arnsdorf — 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America - with Ashley Parker

330

Sue Halpern — What We Leave Behind - with Jane Mayer

331

Sam Kean — Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations - with Melissa Block

332

Amelia Tseng — Empanadas, Pupusas, and Greens on the Side: Language and Latinidad in the Nation's Capital - with Dr. Wanda Hernández

333

Martin Walker — An Enemy in the Village: A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel

334

Brad Thor — Edge of Honor - with Shane Harris

335

Zara Anishanslin — The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution - with Kevin Butterfield

336

Emily Kasriel — Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends, and Foes - with Christopher Turpin

337

Stephen Harrigan — Sorrowful Mysteries: The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century - with Thomas Mallon

338

Christina Hillsberg — Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA - with Valerie Plame

339

Noel Rubinton — Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee - with Marc Fisher

340

Walter Pryor — This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother - with Dr. Julianne Malveaux

341

Sarah Fouts — Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era - with Baynard Woods

342

Leila Mottley — The Girls Who Grew Big - with Renee Bracey Sherman

343

David Litt — It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Pursuit of Common Ground - with Jennifer Rubin

344

Rebecca Grant — Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom - with Amanda Becker

345

Teach-in on Defending Freedom — with Kara Swisher, William M. Treanor, and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. - Moderated by Ally Coll

346

Susan Cooke Soderberg — My Name Is Not Tom: The Life of the Reverend Josiah Henson

347

Jaz Brisack — Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World - with Sara Nelson

348

Susan Dominus — The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success - with Mark Leibovich

349

Jocelyn Benson — The Purposeful Warrior: Standing Up for What's Right When the Stakes Are High - with Chuck Todd

350

Jay Winik — 1861: The Lost Peace - with Evan Thomas

351

Dawn Tripp — Jackie - with Maureen Dowd

352

Todd S. Purdum — Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television - with Maureen Dowd

353

Laura Lippman — Murder Takes a Vacation

354

Rachel Laryea — Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible - with Mike Amezcua

355

Rob Franklin — Great Black Hope - with Ayesha Rascoe

356

Sara Kehaulani Goo — Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i - with Niala Boodhoo

357

Doug E. Jones — The Fantasies of Future Things - with Joseph Williams

358

Maria Foscarinis — And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America - with Pam Fessler

359

The Hour: Poetry Open Mic - Created and hosted by poet María Fernanda

360

Kevin Sack — Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church - with Robert Samuels

361

Joan Williams — Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back - with Anne-Marie Slaughter

362

Deborah Baker — Charlottesville: An American Story - with Maurice Jackson

363

Becky Aikman — Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II - with Glenn Kessler

364

Evan Osnos — The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

365

Thomas Mallon — The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 - with Lisa Page

366

Juliet Bellow — Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris - with Mary Morton

367

Jennifer Oko — Just Emilia - with Angie Kim

368

Zaakir Tameez — Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation - with Rep. Eric Swalwell

369

Sam Tanenhaus — Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America - with Elisabeth Bumiller

370

Thomas E. Ricks — We Can't Save You: A Tale of Politics, Murder, and Maine

371

Denise S. Robbins — The Unmapping - with Hannah Grieco and Marines Alvarez

372

Robert MacFarlane — Is a River Alive? - with Ross Andersen

373

Inner Loop Panel: Identity and Belonging in Literature

374

Molly Jong-Fast — How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir - with Maureen Dowd

375

Daniel Brook — The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

376

Zoë Schlanger — The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth - with Ross Andersen

377

Sally Quinn — Silent Retreat - with Maureen Dowd

378

David A. Graham — The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America - with Jeffrey Goldberg

379

Sara Kehaulani Goo — Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i - with Niala Boodhoo

380

Honor Jones — Sleep - with Clint Smith

381

Anna Malaika Tubbs — Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us - with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

382

Caty Borum and David Conrad-Pérez — Radical Reality: Documentary Storytelling and the Global Fight for Social Justice - with Dr. Jeffrey Jones

383

Karen Hao — Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI - with Bina Venkataraman

384

Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes — Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House - with Ali Vitali

385

Peniel E. Joseph — Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed Americas Civil Rights Revolution - with Ibram X. Kendi

386

Daria Lavelle — Aftertaste - with Laura Hankin

387

Jonah Bromwich — Dragon On Centre Street - with Michael S. Schmidt

388

Paul Elie — The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s - with Daniel Burke

389

Mariah Blake — They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals - with Juliet Eilperin

390

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson — Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again - with Maureen Dowd

391

Hawa Hassan — Setting a Place for Us: Recipes and Stories of Displacement, Resilience, and Community from Eight Countries Impacted by War - with Joe Yonan

392

Karida Brown — The Battle for the Black Mind - with Dr. David J. Johns

393

Bonnie Tsui — On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

394

Edward Luce — Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet - with Kori Schake

395

SL Price — The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse - with Stefan Fatsis

396

Jonathan Capehart — Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home - with Susan Rice

397

David A. Kessler — Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight - with Dan Diamond

398

Carl Hiaasen — Fever Beach

399

Martha A. Sandweiss — The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West - with James Grossman

400

Dave Barry — Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

401

Leah Litman — Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes - with Representative Jamie Raskin

402

Climate Writing, Climate Action - with Kate Woodworth, Mike Tidwell and Jim Lardner

403

Lars Krutak — Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity Through Skin and Ink - with Sara Kehaulani Goo

404

Amy Shearn — Animal Instinct - with Chloe Yelena Miller

405

Andrew Holter — Going Around: Selected Journalism - with Dave Zirin

406

Amity Gaige — Heartwood - with Angie Kim

407

Gemini Wahhaj and Kurt Baumeister — KATY FAMILY and TWILIGHT OF THE GODS - with Javed Jahangir & Shimul Mou

408

John Cassidy — Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI - with Jared Bernstein

409

Judith Viorst — Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

410

Jennifer Hope Choi — The Wanderer's Curse - with Chet'la Sebree

411

Miranda Spivack — Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back - with Leonard Downie Jr

412

Sarah Aziza — The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders - with Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

413

James Romm — Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and th

414

Christina Li — The Manor of Dreams - with Martha Anne Toll

415

Grit and Gravity

416

Martha Anne Toll — Duet for One - with Anne Midgette

417

John B. King — Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives - with Denise Forte

418

Marina Lopes — Please Yell at My Kids: What Cultures Around the World Can Teach You About Parenting in Community, Raising Independent Kids, and Not Losing Your Mind - with Elvina Nawaguna

419

Tom D. Crouch — Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life

420

Yepoka Yeebo — Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World - with Marcia Chatelain

421

Chris Hedges — A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

422

Rachel Frazin — Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America - with Miranda Willson

423

Corinna Barrett Lain — Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection - with Mark Stern

424

Jon Hickey — Big Chief - with Ian Shapira

425

Keith Rushing — Descended: Searching for My Gullah-Geechee Roots - with Rion Amilcar Scott

426

Michael Luo — Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America - with Jia Lynn Yang

427

Sarah Schulman — The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity - with Gwydion Suilebhan

428

Gayle Wald — This Is Rhythm: Ella Jenkins, Children's Music, and the Long Civil Rights Movement - with Michel Martin

429

Nathan K. Hensley — Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse - with Rabih Alameddine

430

Poetry Night Panel - with Brandel France de Bravo & Julie Choffel - in conversation with María Fernanda

431

Jaap de Roode — Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves

432

Chris Hughes — Marketcrafters - with Zachary D. Carter

433

Douglas Waller — The Determined Spy

434

Richard D. Kahlenberg — Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at Americas Colleges - with John C. Brittain

435

Corinna Vallianatos & Eric Puchner— Origin Stories & Dream State

436

Faiz Siddiqui — Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk - with Noel King

437

Blake Gopnik — The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream - with Robin Givhan

438

Andrew C. Isenberg — The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850

439

Dr. Judith Joseph — High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy - with Glory Edim and Talia Cadet

440

Dan Nadel — Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

441

Ken Kalfus — A Hole in the Story

442

Jonathan Horn — The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines

443

Jeffrey Ogbar — Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration

444

Seán Hewitt — Open, Heaven - with Andrew Dolan

445

Jennifer Haigh — RABBIT MOON - with Aaron Hamburger

446

Eamon Dolan — The Power of Parting: Finding Peace and Freedom Through Family Estrangement - with Hanna Rosin

447

Katie Kitamura — Audition - with Kat Chow

448

Michael Gushue & Kim Roberts — Q&A for the End of the World

449

David Denby — Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer - with Frank Foer

450

Poetry in Translation: Nancy Naomi Carlson — When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi - with Vivek Narayanan

451

Joe Boyd — And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

452

Elaine Sciolino — Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum — with Maureen Dowd

453

Maureen Dowd — Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech - with Simon Godwin

454

Poetry Night with Nida Sophasarun, Jennifer Chang, and Cecily Parks

455

Lise Olsen — The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys - with special guest Sharon Derrick

456

Elie Mystal — Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America - with Mark Stern

457

Elon Green — The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York - with Nicole Chung

458

Brian Goldstone — There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America - with Sara Nelson

459

Peter Wolf — Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses

460

Tess Sanchez — We've Decided to Go in a Different Direction - with Max Greenfield

461

Clay Risen — Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America - with Michael Kazin

462

Nell Zink — Sister Europe

463

William Geroux — The Fifteen: Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America - with Tom Kapsidelis

464

Michael David-Fox — Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule - with Michael Kimmage

465

Paul Blustein — King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency

466

Jeanne Theoharis — King of the North: Martin Luther King's Freedom Struggle Outside of the South - with Quito J. Swan

467

Emily Feng — Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping's China - with Frank Langfitt

468

Maurice Jackson — Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality

469

Samantha Harvey — Orbital - with Jamie Quatro

470

Jill Elaine Hasday — WE THE MEN: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality - with Michele Goodwin

471

Paul Lisicky — Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell - with Martha Anne Toll

472

Jill Santopolo — The Love We Found - with Nick Schifrin

473

Brad Leithauser — The Old Current

474

Joshua Hammer — The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing

475

Nicole Cuffy — O Sinners! - with Glory Edim

476

Bernadette Atuahene — Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America - with Justin Hansford

477

Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford — Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball

478

Meenakshi Ahamed — Indian Genius: The Meteoric Rise of Indians in America - with Evan Osnos

479

Emma Donoghue — The Paris Express - with Tayla Burney

480

Lawrence Wright — The Human Scale

481

Shubha Sunder — Optional Practical Training - with Koye Oyedeji

482

Alexis Madrigal — The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City - with Adam Harris

483

David Enrich — Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful - with Carol Leonnig

484

Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, and David Shipley — Who is Government?

485

Reginald Dwayne Betts — Doggerel: Poems

486

Elissa Altman — Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create - with Brittany Kerfoot

487

Ali Watkins — The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army - with Sopan Deb

488

Ariel Dorfman — Allegro

489

Alissa Wilkinson — We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine - with Dan Kois

490

Laurie Woolever — Care and Feeding with Daniela Galarza

491

Gary Krist — Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco - with Margaret Talbot

492

Olga Khazan — Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change - with Daniel H. Pink

493

Michael Wolff — All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America - with Alexander Nazaryan

494

Steve Oney — On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR - with Jack Shafer

495

Zoë Gadegbeku — Blue Futures, Break Open - with Hannah Grieco

496

Cat Bohannon — Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

497

Jill Eicher — Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War

498

Elaine Weiss — Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement - with Marcia Chatelain

499

Teach-in on Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law — with David Cole, Skye Perryman, Rep. Jamie Raskin, and Kelley Robinson - with Ally Coll

500

John Lechner — Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare - with Brett Forrest

501

John Miller — The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball - with Tom Gilbert

502

Bernice L. McFadden — Firstborn Girls - with Glory Edim

503

Erik Baker — Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America - with Jamelle Bouie

504

Surekha Davies — Humans: A Monstrous History

505

Alexander Vindman — The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself about Russia and Betrayed Ukraine - with Sharon L. Davies

506

Jeffrey Toobin — The Pardon: Nixon, Ford and the Politics of Presidential Mercy

507

Ira Madison — Pure Innocent Fun - with Dan Zak

508

Michael Nayak — Symbiote - with CJ Rivera

509

Edward Fishman — Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare - with Elizabeth Ralph

510

Eve L. Ewing — Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism - with Clint Smith

511

Jonathan Tarleton — Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons - with Amanda Huron

512

Brad Snyder — You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech - with Stephen I. Vladeck

513

Samantha Shannon — The Dark Mirror (Bone Season #5) - with Sabaa Tahir

514

Philip Greene — Sours: A History of the World's Most Storied Cocktail Style

515

Filippo Trevisan — Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy - with Pete Hackeman

516

Kenneth Roth — Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments - with Missy Ryan

517

Gregg Kimball — Searching for Jimmie Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory

518

Mary Frances Phillips — Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins - with Quito Swan

519

This is Your Poem: A Tribute to Nikki Giovanni - with Tricia Elam Walker, Nina Angela Mercer, Holly Bass, and María Fernanda

520

Peter Beinart — Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning - with Karen Attiah

521

Dr. Adam Ratner — Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health - with Dan Diamond

522

Larry La — Square Moon: One Man’s Journey From War-Torn Vietnam to D.C.’s Hottest Kitchens - with Michael Abramowitz

523

Isaac Stanley-Becker — Europe Without Borders: A History - with Ishaan Tharoor

524

Drew Lichtenberg & Deborah C. Payne — Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company - with Trey Graham

525

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham — Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

526

Sarah Jones — Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass - with Tim Shenk

527

Katherine Stewart — Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy - with Representative Jamie Raskin

528

Rebecca Romney — Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - with Stephanie Stillo

529

David Levering Lewis — The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958 - with Steve Inskeep

530

Tamika D. Mallory — I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience - with Cora Masters Barry & April Ryan

531

Irvin Weathersby Jr. — In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space - with Jamila Minnicks

532

Marita Golden — How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter - with Ethelbert Miller

533

Valentine's Day Romance Panel with Nora Dahlia & Katie Holt - moderated by Taj McCoy

534

Elinor Lipman — Every Tom, Dick & Harry

535

Rich Benjamin — Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History - with Edgar Kunz

536

Lauren Francis-Sharma — Casualties of Truth - with Kwame Alexander

537

Jennifer Finney Boylan — Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us - with Congresswoman Sarah McBride

538

Sarah Chihaya — Bibliophobia - with Glory Edim

539

Philip Shenon — Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church - with Neil Lewis

540

John Sayles — To Save the Man

541

Tom Rosshirt — Chasing Peace: A Story of Breakdowns, Breakthroughs, and the Spiritual Power of Neuroscience - with Tim Shriver

542

Joseph Koerner — Art in a State of Siege - with Sebastian Smee

543

Jonathan Rauch — Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy - with McKay Coppins

544

Roger Celestin — The Delicate Beast - with Peter Constantine

545

Betty Shamieh — Too Soon - with Morgan Menzies

546

Colette Shade — Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything - with Rachel Vorona Cote

547

Theresa S. Betancourt — Shadows Into Light: A Generation of Former Child Soldiers Comes of Age - with Dr. Andrea Horvath Marques

548

Nicholas Evan Sarantakes — The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War

549

Charles Piller — Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's - with Jenn White

550

Loretta Ross — Calling in: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel - with Adriane Fugh-Berman

551

Youssef Rakha — The Dissenters - with Eman Quotah

552

Brittany Friedman — Carceral Apartheid - with DeRay Mckesson

553

Arch Campbell — The Accidental Critic - with Doreen Gentzler

554

Andrew Lawler — A Perfect Frenzy - with Sharon Pratt

555

Lionel Barber — Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son - with Brody Mullins

556

Mark L. Clifford — The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic - with Bill McGurn

557

Caryl Phillips — Another Man in the Street

558

Catherine Coleman Flowers — Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope - with Diane McWhorter

559

Juanita Tolliver — A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics - with Helena Andrews-Dyer

560

Ruth Franklin — The Many Lives of Anne Frank - with Frank Foer

561

Michael Posner — Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights - with David Leonhardt

562

Jeffrey Boutwell — Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy - with Sidney Blumenthal

563

Rebecca Brenner Graham — Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkinss Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany - with Elisabeth Griffith

564

Cheryl Neely — No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference - with Ian Shapira

565

Megan Howell — Softie - with Hannah Grieco

566

Jorge Goldstein & Thalia Goldstein — A Father and Daughter Discuss their Separate Interdisciplinary Books with Professor Shayna Maskell

567

Ayesha Rascoe — HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience - with Delece Smith-Barrow

568

Tiffany L. Warren — The Unexpected Diva - with Victoria Christopher Murray

569

Malu Halasa and Jordan Elgrably — Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader

570

Christopher Kondrich, Kyoko Mori & Sofia Samatar — Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation

571

Sarah Hoover — The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood

572

Scott D. Seligman — The Chief Rabbi's Funeral: The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot

573

Kristen Martin — The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood - with Lily Meyer

574

Michelle Adams — The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North - with Sheryll Cashin

575

Juan Williams — New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement

576

Paul Gardullo, Johanna Obenda, and Anthony Bogues — In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World

577

Eva Dou — House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company

578

Caroline Adams Miller — Big Goals: The Science of Setting Them, Achieving Them, and Creating Your Best Life - with Rob Sayre

579

Derek Silva — The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game - with Dave Zirin

580

John Rolfe Gardiner — North of Ordinary - with John Lescault

581

Pagan Kennedy — The Secret History of the Rape Kit - with Hanna Rosin

582

Sunita Sah — Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes - with Joanna Lohman

583

Edward Alden & Laurie Trautman — When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders - with María Teresa Kumar

584

Adam Chandler — 99% PERSPIRATION - with Marcia Chatelain

585

Senator Ron Wyden — It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change - with Senator Cory Booker

586

Julian Zelizer — In Defense of Partisanship - with E.J. Dionne Jr.

587

Paula Whyman — Bad Naturalist - with Dana Milbank

588

Eric Dezenhall — Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made

589

Peter Osnos — LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail - with Evan Osnos

590

Meryl Gordon — THE WOMAN WHO KNEW EVERYONE

591

Adam Ross — Playworld - with Elliot Ackerman

592

Timothy Heaphy — Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal About Rising Threats to American Democracy - with Jonathan Karl

593

Christopher Cox — Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

594

Marvin Kalb — A Different Russia - with Ted Koppel

595

Kevin Merida and Deborah Willis — Kamala: Her Historic, Joyful, and Auspicious Sprint to the White House - with Rhea Combs

596

Rebecca Little & Colleen Long — I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America - with Tamara Keith