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Christopher Bollen discusses "The Lost Americans"

From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder

When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...

How To Save Diverse Democracies

From: Mateo Schimpf

On this week’s episode, Yascha Mounk joins Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart And How Th...

Bought by WLPR , Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

IE: Inside Europe, 10/22/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

On today's programme: Assault on democracy: a brutal attack claims the life of a British parliamentarian. Food for thought: Frankfurt plays host to...

IE: Inside Europe, 9/24/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

This week on the show: Geopolitical realignment - AUKUS and the fallout from France’s nuclear snub-marine. Digging for trouble: we get to the botto...

Practicing Exile: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said

From: WFHB

Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...

The Big Ponder #1: I Love You, I Hate You

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut

“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

515: Books We Can't Forget / 516: Is The Nation State Splintering?, 9/12/2020

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Books We Can't Forget" - Is there a book that changed your life? Celebrated authors share their favorite reads to launch our new podcast...

Dispatch 321: 44th Kolkata Book Fair

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: The police patrolling the Kolkata Book Fair, Credit: Sandip Roy

Sandip takes us to one of his favorite places, the Kolkata Book Fair, now in it’s 44th year!

Just a Spoonful of America: Prescribing American Studies to Fight Fascism

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

The idea that art, literature and music in particular, might work as a sort of “Marshall Plan of the Mind” is our topic tonight. At the end of Worl...

The Sellout

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Paul Beatty at the Kolkata Literary Meet , Credit: Kolkata Literary Meet

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

Ireland Rises Again!

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

The history of the 1916 Easter Rising—and of the Irish republic that rose from it—is a mixed bag.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT

A Conversation with poet, theater artist and activist Shailja Patel

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Shailja Patel, Credit: D. Ross Cameron

With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.

Bought by KPIP-LP

Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht

From: Open Source

Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000

How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Cultural Capital - Hamid Dabashi & Andre Aciman

From: Open Source

In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon

From: Open Source

Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio

Moving Forward in Iraq

From: Woodrow Wilson Center
Series: Lee H. Hamilton Commentaries

We arrived in Iraq carelessly; we should leave carefully. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton discusses America's goal in Iraq and how it might achieve...

Bought by WBFO