Reader's Corner

In "White Darkness" We Learn About Henry Worsley's Chilling Excursions To Antarctica 15.11.2019 29:51 ↓

This encore interview was originally broadcast in June, 2019.

CJ Chivers' Details Modern Combat And America's Longest Wars In "The Fighters" 08.11.2019 29:56 ↓

This interview was originally broadcast in August, 2019.

Michele Gelfand On How Tight And Loose Cultures Adhere (Or Don't) To Norms 18.10.2019 30:10 ↓

This interview originally aired in February, 2019.

Investigating The Forgotten War's Greatest Battle With Hampton Sides 21.09.2019 30:15 ↓

This encore interview originally aired in February, 2019.

In "Saudi America" Bethany McClean Shares The Truth About Fracking And How It's Changing The World 30.08.2019 29:55 ↓

This encore program originally aired in January, 2019.

Brendan Koerner, "The Skies Belong To Us" And The Golden Age Of Hijacking 16.08.2019 30:00 ↓

This encore interview was first broadcast in January, 2019.

Listen To Daniel Mason Discuss His Novel "The Winter Soldier" 02.08.2019 29:45 ↓

Daniel Mason's novel, The Winter Soldier, follows Lucius Krzelewski, a 22-year-old medical student living in Vienna when World War I breaks out. Eager to do his part and allured by the vision of the noble, battlefield medic, Lucius enlists. But when he arrives on the front line, the reality of his situation comes into focus: the other doctors have fled, only a strange and secretive nurse remains,...

John Wray's "Godsend" Is A Coming-Of-Age Novel About A Girl Joining The Taliban 19.07.2019 29:45 ↓

This encore interview originally aired in January, 2019.

Lindsey Hilsum Writes About The Life Of The War Correspondent Marie Colvin 12.07.2019 32:00 ↓

Marie Colvin was one of the foremost war reporters of her generation, risking her life covering conflicts in Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, and the Middle East. Killed in an artillery attack in Syria in 2012, Colvin left behind a profound record of the victims of wars that she covered, and a reputation as an unflinching and nonconformist reporter.

Real Life Influences Fiction In Emily Ruskovich's "Idaho" 05.07.2019 29:30 ↓

This encore interview was originally broadcast in October, 2017.

Emily Ruskovich On Crafting Her Breakout Novel "Idaho" 28.06.2019 29:30 ↓

This encore conversation first was broadcast in October, 2017.

Bryce Andrews Details Changing Habitats And "The Life And Death Of A Grizzly Bear" 10.06.2019 30:15 ↓

The grizzly bear is one of North America’s few remaining large predators. With a diminished range, grizzlies are again spreading across the West. But in the valleys where once they were king, grizzlies are finding the landscape they’d known for eons utterly changed by this millennia’s most dominant animal: humans.

How California's History Might Inform America's Future 24.05.2019 29:56 ↓

This interview originally aired in November, 2018.

Meghan L. O'Sullivan On Energy Independence, Global Politics And America 03.05.2019 30:00 ↓

This Reader's Corner interview was originally broadcast in November, 2018.

Co-Authors Levitsky & Ziblatt Assess The Stability Of Democracies 12.04.2019 30:01 ↓

America’s constitutional system of checks and balances has endured for more than two centuries. This is due, in part, to two unwritten political norms: respectful tolerance between opposing political parties, and a measure of restraint by the administration in power. Yet at contentious times in our history, those guardrails of democracy have been put to the test.

Daniel Tudor Peels Back The Curtains On Contemporary North Korea 30.03.2019 30:00 ↓

For decades, North Korea has operated as a prime example of a “hermit kingdom” – a nation ruled by a despotic family regime, where propaganda and historical, political, and economic theatre are a daily ritual for the country’s 25 million citizens.

Randall Fuller On How Darwin's Theory Of Evolution Made Waves In 1860's U.S. 22.03.2019 29:49 ↓

This encore interview originally aired in October, 2018.

Jonathan Evison's "Lawn Boy" Is A Coming-Of-Age Story About Class Distinctions 15.03.2019 30:41 ↓

Jonathan Evison is a writer whose work frequently appears on the New York Times bestseller list.

Peter Brannen On "The Ends Of The World" And Earth's Past Mass Extinctions 08.03.2019 29:55 ↓

This encore Reader's Corner interview first aired in September, 2018.

Master Writer Rick Bass Dines With His Idols In "The Traveling Feast" 02.03.2019 32:31 ↓

What if you could take a road trip and visit all your heroes, door-to-door? What if you could share a meal? And what if you could do it right in their own homes? Our guest today embarked on just such a pilgrimage.

David Goldfield's Latest Book Details When Government Was Good 08.02.2019 29:50 ↓

This interview was first broadcast in August, 2018.

Discussing The Human Need To Help With Nicholas Kristof 19.01.2019 29:30 ↓

This encore program originally aired in September, 2018.

The Incredible Power Of "The Four" Tech Giants With Scott Galloway 07.12.2018 30:00 ↓

This encore interview originally aired in July, 2018.

The Fight To Vote In The U.S. With Scholar Michael Waldman 09.11.2018 30:00 ↓

This encore program was originally broadcast in November, 2016.

Chronicling Erdogan's Rise As "The New Sultan" Of Turkey 01.11.2018 30:01 ↓

This encore Reader's Corner interview originally broadcast in June, 2018.