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The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly — 140 episodes
BONUS: Lewis Lapham's The American Ruling Class
America's Violent Birth (with Joseph J. Ellis and Holger Hoock)
Lapham’s Revolutionary America: Jill Lepore and Gordon S. Wood
Lapham's Revolutionary America [Teaser]
Michael Pollan on Consciousness
Whither the Humanities? (With Zena Hitz, Justin Smith-Ruiu, and D. Graham Burnett)
Francine Prose on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen
Mary Beard on the Classics
Yiyun Li on “The Try-Works”
Adrienne Mayor on Geomyths
Robert Moor on Trees
Philip Hoare on William Blake and “Monstrous Pictures of Whales”
Anne Fadiman on Essays, Personal and Historical
Morgan Meis on Three Painters (Rubens, Marc, Mitchell)
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the Offshore World
Episode 22: James Romm on Plato and Tyranny
Episode 21: The Friends of Attention
Encore Episode: Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams
Episode 20: Charles King on Handel's “Messiah”
Episode 19: Jeremy Eichler on “Time’s Echo”
Episode 18: Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe
Episode 17: Queequeg and Ishmael in Love (with Alexander Chee, Aaron Sachs, and Caleb Crain)
Episode 16: Brenda Wineapple on the Scopes Trial
Episode 15: Elizabeth Kolbert
Episode 14: Charles Baxter on “The Sermon”
Episode 13: Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin
Episode 12: James Marcus on Emerson and Melville
Episode 11: Matthew Hollis on "The Seafarer"
Episode 10: "Loomings," with Francine Prose
Episode 9: Roger Berkowitz
Episode 8: Herman Melville, Extracted (with Wyatt Mason)
Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham
Episode 6: Justin Smith-Ruiu and Rachel Richardson
Episode 5: Ben Tarnoff and John Jeremiah Sullivan
Episode 4: Kira Brunner Don and Nathan Brown
Episode 3: Francine Prose
Episode 2: Lewis H. Lapham, Part Two
Episode 1: Lewis H. Lapham, Part One
Episode 102: Robert D. Kaplan
Episode 101: Elizabeth Winkler
Episode 100: Jared Yates Sexton
Episode 99: Ben Jealous
Episode 98: Edward Achorn
Episode 97: Stacy Schiff
Episode 96: Adam Hochschild
Episode 95: Andrea Wulf
Episode 94: Kermit Roosevelt III
Episode 93: Aaron Sachs
Episode 92: Olivier Zunz
Episode 91: Leo Damrosch
Episode 90: Eric Jay Dolin
Episode 89: Richard Cohen
Episode 88: Andrew S. Curran
Episode 87: Peter S. Goodman
Episode 86: Oliver Milman
Episode 85: Roosevelt Montás
Episode 84: Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy
Episode 83: Joseph J. Ellis
Episode 82: David Wengrow
Episode 81: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Episode 80: Nicholas Crane
Episode 79: Charles Foster
Episode 78: Michael Knox Beran
Episode 77: Philip Hoare
Episode 76: Eric Berkowitz
Episode 75: Simon Winchester
Episode 74: Alan Taylor
Episode 73: Sonia Shah
Episode 72: Louis Menand
Episode 71: Nathaniel Rich
Episode 70: Dennis C. Rasmussen
Episode 69: Richard Thompson Ford
Episode 68: Lance Morrow
Episode 67: David S. Brown
Episode 66: Michael J. Sandel
Episode 65: George Dyson
Episode 64: Harold Holzer
Episode 63: Jacob Goldstein
Episode 62: Edward D. Melillo
Episode 61: Derek W. Black
Episode 60: Richard Kreitner
Episode 59: Thomas Frank
Episode 58: Tracy Campbell
Episode 57: Edward Achorn
Episode 56: Peter Fritzsche
Episode 55: Richard J. King
Episode 54: Gaia Vince
Episode 53: Eugene McCarraher
Episode 52: Matt Stoller
Episode 51: Andrew Delbanco
Episode 50: Harlow Giles Unger
Episode 49: William Dalrymple
Episode 48: Isabella Tree
Episode 47: Ziya Tong
Episode 46: Rick Atkinson
Episode 45: David Wallace-Wells
Episode 44: Brenda Wineapple
Episode 43: Nigel Hamilton
Episode 42: Greg Grandin
Episode 41: Andrew S. Curran
Episode 40: Philipp Blom
Episode 39: Alan Rusbridger
Episode 38: Joseph J. Ellis
Episode 37: David Wootton
Episode 36: Sarah Churchwell
Episode 35: Jill Lepore
Episode 34: David Levering Lewis
Episode 33: Jim Holt
Episode 32: Steven Ujifusa
Episode 31: Roland Philipps
Episode 30: Catherine Nixey
Episode 29: Steve Fraser
Episode 28: Stephen Greenblatt
Episode 27: Barbara Ehrenreich
Episode 26: Susan Dunn
Episode 25: David Cannadine
Episode 24: Richard White
Episode 23: Victor Sebestyen
Episode 22: Holger Hoock
Episode 21: Eric Foner
Episode 20: Maya Jasanoff
Episode 19: Gordon S. Wood
Episode 18: Adrian Goldsworthy
Episode 17: Roger D. Hodge
Episode 16: Victor Davis Hanson
Episode 15: Mark Kurlansky
Episode 14: Peter Frankopan
Episode 13: Stephen Greenblatt
Episode 12: Peter Brooks
Episode 11: John Strausbaugh
Episode 10: Simon Winchester
Episode 09: Michael Kazin
Episode 08: Erica Benner
Episode 07: Kory Stamper
Episode 06: Ed Yong
Episode 05: Ian Mortimer
Episode 04: William Hogeland
Episode 03: John Micklethwait
Episode 02: Andrew Bacevich
Episode 01: Nancy Isenberg