Featuring Bianca Jones Marlin and Veronika Meduna
32 Min
Nov 10, 2018
Guest host Jane Curtin presents works by Anton Chekhov that were part of a celebration sponsored by Columbia University and hosted by Chekhov scholar Laura Strausfeld.
60 Min
Nov 8, 2018
Transcendent musical performance and messy gender dynamics in Cooper's new take on the old tale.
77 Min
Nov 6, 2018
Plus, dish on Gwyneth Paltrow’s wedding hair (did she do it herself?!)
28 Min
Nov 5, 2018
Notes from the Fog author Ben Marcus on Elon Musk, the weird existential joys of the reality TV show Castaways, and whether we will eat in the future.
Guest host Kate Burton presents three stories about politics and voting, at home and abroad.
Spiritual leaders of different faith discuss the role of religion in sci-fi fantasy worlds.
The '54 musical spin on the old Hollywood fable starring Judy Garland and James Mason set the stage for Bradley Cooper's latest take.
The friendly side of North Korea. Men at sea, dancing! Monty Python, of course, and more!
Redford's farewell to acting is a perfect bookend with his iconic turn as The Sundance Kid.
RIding the Greyhounds of hell, from New York to El Paso. The grandiose alternate reality of hedge fund traders. Growing up Russian in Reagan's America, and more.
Plus, Jessica Simpson's Haircolorist Tells Us What Formulas Are Safe For Pregnant Women
With Robert Redford's latest and possibly last film currently in theaters, a look back at his classic pairing with Paul Newman from 1969.
How does the Michael Moore's approach play in 2018's heightened political climate?
Man Booker prize winners Olga Tocarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft on maps that lead nowhere, plasticized anatomies, and humor across national borders.
Guest host Robert Sean Leonard presents two works curated with the online food and cooking community Food52.
A nation born in revolution will forever struggle against chaos. Jill Lepore, author of These Truths, on the surprising roots of the mess America's in.
Guest host Cynthia Nixon presents three works from The Best American Short Stories 2016.
How a mother-daughter obsession became a massive and dangerous industry. The weird history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Guest host Hope Davis presents three works curated with the online food and cooking community Food52.
How classic sci-fi and horror radio dramas set the stage for stories that couldn't be told yet without advanced SFX
A seismic shake-up at a venerable literary gatekeeper. Shallow and not-so-shallow consumerism. The Paris Review’s new editor on old ghosts, new voices, and what’s worth keeping.
When Spike Lee makes a film about the past, he's actually making a film about the present.
Writers and chefs discuss the roles that food can play in sci-fi fantasy worlds.
In part 1 of this Spike Lee pairing, a consideration of the rare cradle-to-grave biopic that gets it right.
Guest hosts Susan Orlean and Sarah Thyre, the hosts of the podcast “Crybabies,” offer up some tearjerkers and share their love of crying.
How the shark movie has progressed - and not - from Spielberg's '75 masterpiece to this summer's The Meg.
Guest host Cynthia Nixon presents a celebration of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre."
Three years after my Dungeons & Dragons episode, where I first learned how to play, I discuss the epic and surprisingly personal journey I've been on with my D&D group.
With a new killer shark movie menacing moviegoers this summer, a consideration of the first and best of them, Spielberg's '75 masterpiece.
Congo is one of the most culturally diverse, mineral rich, and beautiful places on Earth. But the “heart of darkness” colonizers dreamed into being still bleeds. Daniel McCabe’s documentary This is Congo lets this wounded nation speak for itself.
After two decades, the Mission Impossible franchise is still finding a way to raise the stakes.
In Egypt, comedy can be a matter of life and death. But life in America's no cakewalk either. Political satirist Bassem Youssef on reinventing yourself, crossing cultural lines, and the future of space exploration.
Guest host Jane Kaczmarek presents three stories with surprising twists and turns.
Francesca Coppa explains the fascinating history of fan fiction, and why she's become an advocate for it in academia.
How Brian DePalma helped shape the Mission: Impossible franchise, while exerting his own iconoclastic style.
When you’re a Hasidic woman in Borough Park, Brooklyn, starting an ambulance corps is a radical act. Documentary filmmaker Paula Eiselt on the push-pull of identity and cultural change in her film 93Queen.