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2025
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Remembering Victory: World War II Memoirs of the European Theater
May 8, 2025
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The Greatness of Sylvia Plath
April 17, 2025
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What Is Totalitarianism? Understanding Hannah Arendt Now
March 11, 2025
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The Black Fantastic: The New Wave of Afrofuturist Fiction
February 19, 2025
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It’s a MAD World: The Comic Genius of MAD Magazine
January 15, 2025
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2024
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LOA at the Movies: Film Adaptations from the Brilliant to the Bizarre
December 17, 2024
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“A Place None of Us Know”: Writing, Loss, and Joan Didion’s Late Memoirs
November 14, 2024
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1925: The Scopes Trial, the Culture War, and Four American Masterpieces
October 16, 2024
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Burning Down the House: Reading Faulkner’s Short Stories Now
September 17, 2024
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Faith, Fiction, and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
May 21, 2024
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Robert Frost: Our Poet for All Seasons
April 16, 2024
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Deadline Artist: The Genius of Jimmy Breslin
March 6, 2024
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Black Writers of the Founding Era
February 6, 2024
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Why Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel
January 17, 2024
2023
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I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s
December 5, 2023
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Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic: Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am
November 8, 2023
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The Startling Theater of Adrienne Kennedy
October 25, 2023
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The Mysterious Greatness of Gatsby
September 21, 2023
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A Celebration of Ray Bradbury
July 19, 2023
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Rediscovering the Pathbreaking Fiction of Nancy Hale with Kate Bolick
June 21, 2023
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‘The Best American Writer You’ve Never Heard Of’: A Tribute to Charles Portis
May 17, 2023
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Small Miracles: The Stories of Bernard Malamud
April 20, 2023
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Back to the Future Is Female!
March 15, 2023
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
February 15, 2023
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Ordinary Heroes: Bruce Catton’s Civil War Masterpiece
January 18, 2023
2022
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The Unknown Kerouac
November 14, 2022
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Lying and Politics: The Relevance of Hannah Arendt
October 20, 2022
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A Celebration of Oscar Hijuelos
September 15, 2022
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A Tribute to Gary Snyder
July 20, 2022
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Fiddler on the Roof on Stage and Screen
June 29, 2022
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The Heart of American Poetry, with Edward Hirsch
June 1, 2022
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Maxine Hong Kingston and Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 18, 2022
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Our Town for Our Time
May 3, 2022
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World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater
March 16, 2022
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Filming Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
February 24, 2022
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Vonnegut at 100, with Robert Weide
January 25, 2022
2021
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American Christmas Stories
December 15, 2021
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Rediscovering Rachel Carson
November 22, 2021
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Burning Boy: Paul Auster on the Extraordinary Life and Work of Stephen Crane
October 28, 2021
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Virginia Hamilton and the Transformation of American Children’s Literature
October 6, 2021
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The Light in the Piazza: From Page to Stage
July 14, 2021
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On Extended Wings: American Birds and American Writing
June 17, 2021
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Joan Didion: The Art of Storytelling
May 19, 2021
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E. O. Wilson: An Earth Day Tribute
April 22, 2021
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Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
April 15, 2021
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The Great American Western on Page and Screen
March 30, 2021
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Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still Can
March 18, 2021
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Gabrielle Bellot on If Beale Street Could Talk
March 3, 2021
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Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes
February 18, 2021
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American Democracy: The Task Before Us
January 27, 2021
2020
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Peanuts at 70
December 16, 2020
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The Genius of Hemingway: Robert W. Trogdon, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
December 2, 2020
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The Nineteenth Amendment Turns 100: A New Look at Women’s Suffrage
November 19, 2020 (video not available)
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
October 29, 2020
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics: Hofstadter in the Time of Trump
October 13, 2020
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”
September 23, 2020
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Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of Presidential Succession, with Ted Widmer
September 10, 2020
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It’s a New World, Golde: Classic American Musicals in the 21st Century
August 26, 2020
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The Fate of the Earth: Jonathan Schell and His Legacy
August 6, 2020
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Who Tells Your Story: Joanne B. Freeman on Hamilton and History
July 28, 2020
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street
July 16, 2020
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Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”
June 25, 2020
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Harold Bloom and the American Canon, with David Mikics
June 16, 2020
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Andrew J. Bacevich and Sean Wilentz: What Is American Conservatism?
June 4, 2020
