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City Arts & Lectures
Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 publi...
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Jeff Chang with Shereen Marisol Miraji
Author and cultural critic Jeff Chang's new book is “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America”. The world’s most celebrated marti...
Arundhati Roy & Deepa Fernandes
Arundhati Roy’s internationally best-selling novels include The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Her nonfiction works engage...
Bill McKibben & Lauren Markham
Our guest today is Bill McKibben, an activist and author at the forefront of the movement to address the climate crisis, even as far back as 1989, in...
Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway
Our guest today is Samin Nosrat, chef, cookbook author, and television host. Along with her immense technical know-how, Nosrat is known for her nurtur...
Mary Roach
Our guest today is Mary Roach, a science writer who’s often drawn to taboo, or simply squeamish subjects, like sex, cadavers, or the digestive process...
Encore - Brian Greene on String Theory
We’re going back into the archives for a conversation with theoretical physicist Brian Greene, recorded in 2017. Greene is widely recognized for his g...
Encore - Jeff Tweedy with George Saunders
This week…. An encore of our 2019 program with Jeff Tweedy, founding member of the band Wilco, in conversation with writer George Saunders.
It’...
Encore - Patti Smith
This is an encore presentation of a 2022 broadcast. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist who gained recognition in the 1970s for her...
Encore - Paul Simon
This week…. An encore of our 2016 conversation with legendary musician Paul Simon.
Paul Simon first gained prominence in the 1960s as o...
Encore - Natalie Diaz and Hilton Als
This week, our guest is poet Natalie Diaz in conversation with essayist and author Hilton Als. Natalie Diaz is an enrolled member of the Gila River I...
Robert Reich
Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, is one of today’s leading voices addressing issues of income inequality. Reich served...
Bruce Springsteen - Encore
This week, we're going into the archives for a conversation with Bruce Springsteen, recorded in 2016. The legendary rock star had just published his a...
Alejandro Heredia
Alejandro Heredia is an Afro-Dominican working at the intersection of literature and activism. He immigrated to the United States from the Dominican R...
Eve Ewing
Eve Ewing is a professor at the University of Chicago and the author of four books including Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Chi...
David Mitchell and Pico Iyer - Encore
We’re going back into the archives for a conversation with David Mitchell, recorded in 2021. In novels like Cloud Atlas, and The Bone Clocks, Mitchel...
Michael Pollan and Gul Dolen
A conversation about the evolving world of psychedelics. While scientific breakthroughs continue to reshape our understanding of how these substances...
Shoshana von Blanckensee
Shoshana von Blanckensee is a novelist whose debut work, Girls Girls Girls, explores coming of age, queer identity, and San Francisco in the 1990s. It...
Shelley Sella
Shelley Sella is a board-certified OB-GYN who recently retired after decades as an abortion provider. Her book, Beyond Limits: Stories of the Third-Tr...
Jacinda Ardern
In 2017, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand, becoming the country’s youngest Prime Minister in more than 15...
Thomas Keller and Alice Waters
Thomas Keller has built a collection of restaurants that have set new standards in the hospitality profession. As the first American-born chef to rece...
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel‘s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For grew wildly in response to her graphic memoirs, the best-selling Fun...
Ron Chernow
Biographer Ron Chernow’s acclaimed books include Alexander Hamilton, adapted into the Broadway musical Hamilton, and Washington: A Life, which receive...
Encore: Jon M. Chu and Awkwafina
Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese...
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Our guest today is Anna Malaika Tubbs, a multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. She is the au...
Ross Gay
Ross Gay is a writer with a mission: to help readers explore the beautiful complexities of joy, gratitude, and delight. In his essays and poetry, Gay...
Alec Karakatsanis
Alec Karakatsanis is a lawyer, writer, and the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps. He graduated from Yale College and...
Vauhini Vara
Vauhini Vara is a journalist, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She began her journalism career as a technology reporter at the Wall Stree...
Encore: Ocean Vuong
This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired in August of 2023. We've selected the encore to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the fa...
Gianna Toboni
Our guest today is Gianna Toboni, an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker whose new book “The Volunteer” is the unusual story of a Deat...
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Ezra Klein is a columnist and podcast host at The New York Times and the author of Why We’re Polarized. Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlant...
Who is Government? W. Kamau Bell, Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Michael Lewis
Today, we’ll listen to a conversation with four writers: journalist Michael Lewis, TV host and comedian W. Kamau Bell, novelist Dave Eggers and histor...
Yung Pueblo
Our guest today is poet, author, and meditator Diego Perez, better known by his pen name: Yung Pueblo. A popular voice in the self-improvement space,...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Our guest today is writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, revered in her home country of Nigeria and in the United States, thanks especially to the populari...
Laurie Woolever
Laurie Woolever is a writer, cook, and former right-hand woman to the late Anthony Bourdain. Woolever’s memoir “Care and Feeding” chronicles her jour...
Melissa Clark and Emily Weinstein
Melissa Clark is the author of more than 30 cookbooks, and a writer at the New York Times, where she appears in a weekly cooking video series. She’s...
Neko Case and Hanif Abdurraqib
Our guest today is Neko Case. The iconic alt-country musician is a founding member of the indie-rock band The New Pornographers. She’s also released n...
Jeffrey Toobin
Our guest today is Jeffrey Toobin, bestselling author and CNN legal commentator. Toobin is well known for his ability to illuminate the complexities o...
Encore: Chimamanda Adichie
Our guest today is Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her books include Half of a Yellow Sun, The Thing Around Your Neck, and the 2013 novel Am...
Nate DiMeo
Nate DiMeo is the creator and host of The Memory Palace, a podcast about people from America's past whose names might not be familiar, but whose lives...