We’re here with a capsule of memory from late last year. It was a spark of generosity in Liz Walker’s... more

We’re with the one-off diplomat, strategist, and historian Chas Freeman. Chas Freeman. Call this “Curious Citizen Meets the Most Knowledgeable... more

We’re with the celebrated Scots-accented people’s economist—celebrated above all when he’s home with the locals in his own old pub... more

We’re with the Nobel Prize novelist from Turkey, Orhan Pamuk. It’s not your standard book chat: closer to head-butting than... more

We’re saluting one man’s century in American music. Roy Haynes was the jazz drummer from Boston who shaped the bebop... more

We’re with the writer’s writer Joshua Cohen—beyond category, but ever ahead of the game. He’s a realist, a fantasist, a... more

Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its... more

In the long weekend of solemn suspense before our presidential election in 2024, our guest is Amber. I met Amber... more

Richard Powers may just be the bravest big novelist out there. His new book is titled Playground, in which AI... more

For our shattering Age of October 7, Nathan Thrall has written a double masterpiece, in my reading. Already a Pulitzer... more