Open Source with Christopher Lydon

We’re saluting one man’s century in American music. Roy Haynes was the jazz drummer from Boston who shaped the bebop sound in Harlem 80 years ago. He got nicknamed Snap Crackle for his own crisp, ... The post The Roy Haynes Century appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .

We’re with the writer’s writer Joshua Cohen—beyond category, but ever ahead of the game. He’s a realist, a fantasist, a satirist, New Jersey-born and at home in Israel. Joshua Cohen. It’s his imagination we need, ... The post Joshua Cohen’s Camp appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .

Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well ... The post United States of Fear appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .

In the long weekend of solemn suspense before our presidential election in 2024, our guest is Amber. I met Amber on a call-in radio show almost 30 years ago, and we’ve been talking ever since. ... The post Amber’s America: Love and Outrage appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .

Richard Powers may just be the bravest big novelist out there. His new book is titled Playground, in which AI plays with the natural world. The question is whether and how the digital transformation might ... The post Playground appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .

For our shattering Age of October 7, Nathan Thrall has written a double masterpiece, in my reading. Already a Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a searching work ... The post A Jerusalem Tragedy appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .