“Having that store of memories that history can be, if done well, is a really tremendous form of solace.”  Jill Lepore, historian and author of These Truths, returns with The Deadline, a collection of essays ranging from the personal to the political. Lepore joins us to talk about how she came to compile this collection, […]

What is it about our deep need to ride a possessed roller coaster that whips us from fear to relief and then back to fear faster than we can scream, “Ghost!” ? I would argue that we need those feelings now more than ever. Have you seen what’s going on out there? Sometimes reading something […]

“And the title, of course, has this double meaning, the financial meaning of trust, and let’s call it, emotional meaning of trust … To what extent can I trust this voice and the book, to a large extent is questioning the contracts we enter into as readers.” Hernan Diaz follows up his acclaimed debut novel, In […]

The author of “Barbara the Slut” talks with Nathan Englander — about the making of her boundary-pushing debut collection.

This year’s Presidential Election has left television viewers, talk radio listeners, social media followers, and newspaper readers reeling from too-much-information overload. In the same way diners welcome a juice fast after an all-you-can-eat buffet (or small children benefit from a screaming meltdown after a day at a theme park), our American brains are in desperate […]