I talk about Jurassic Park--both the book and the movie--with Matt Haugen of Terrain. It's a joint episode of our... more

Part 2 of a series on animal agency! An interview with Eva Meijer, author of When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies... more

Part 1 of a series on animal agency! An interview with Carol Gigliotti, author of The Creative Lives of Animals.For... more

I am republishing my very first episode, an interview with Emma Marris about her book Wild Souls, out newly in... more

Season 1 finale! A personal history of how and why I became a vegan. For more resources on animal liberation,... more

January 25, 2023, is acclaimed writer Virginia Woolf's 141st birthday! To celebrate, I invited scholar of modernist literature Bonnie Kime... more

Martha C. Nussbaum is a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, and the author most recently... more

I read 78 books this year, the most in my adult life, and I want to share some of my... more

With CRISPR technology, it is easier than ever for geneticists to alter human DNA, make deadlier pathogens, render mosquitoes infertile,... more

Rachel E. Gross is the author of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, depicting how a new generation of (mostly) women... more