PRX - Pieces for Tone: Political
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Author Carmen Maria Machado's book “In the Dream House” appeared on high school classes’ recommended reading lists, and was subsequently targeted b...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 25:22
Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...
Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 2
We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 59:03
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Eileen Hunt Botting's new book, Artificial Life after Frankenstein, asks what are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make, ...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 59:05
- Purchases: 1
Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel continue to discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a co...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Brad Taylor is a retired Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army. This is his fifteen Pike Logan thriller.
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 12:35
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...
- Added: Nov 20, 2020
- Length: 27:15
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview with author Dave Eggers.
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 11:49
Today’s show, “Radicals and Reactionaries,” is a 90-minute special with journalist and novelist Tony McKenna, whose new book is Angels and Demons: ...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 01:29:31
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 15:39
José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination.
HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 01:58:56
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Submission by Michel Houellebecq.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:12
