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    Podcast
    December 3, 2009

    Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy

    Susan Griffin

    Griffin inquires into the “interior life of democracy” and the divide between theory and practice, continuing the unique “social autobiography”…
    GalleryPodcast
    September 26, 2017

    American Inferno:
    How My Cousin Became a South Central Statistic

    Danielle Allen

    In Danielle Allen’s elegiac family memoir, Cuz: On the Life and Times of Michael A., she tries to make sense of…
    Podcast
    November 4, 2009

    TIME

    Eva Hoffman

    From jet-lag to aging to cryogenic freezing, acclaimed scholar, historian, and memoirist Hoffman offers a broad, eye-opening look beyond the…
    Podcast
    June 28, 2012

    Artists and Survivors: Lost and Found in L.A.

    Dana Spiotta and Janet Fitch

    The struggles of an artist’s life are re-examined through a modern urban lens by these two critically acclaimed novelists. In…
    Podcast
    June 15, 2010

    John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

    Joan Arnold, Tom Curwen, David Kipen, Louise Steinman, Terry Wolverton

    A staged reading of John Ashbery’s great, dense work-one of the defining poems of the 20th century. Six readers, accompanied…
    Video
    February 16, 2006

    Sons of the Rough South:
    Reporting on the Civil Rights Movement

    Karl Fleming and Nick Kotz

    In this program from 2006, journalists Karl Fleming and Nick Kotz discuss their experiences growing up in the segregated south…
    Podcast
    June 11, 2009

    Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

    Eduardo Galeano

    In this history of human adventure, one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers illuminates movements of ideas and society across…
    Podcast
    July 10, 2012

    Crazy Brave: A Memoir

    Joy Harjo

    In her memoir, Harjo, an internationally known performer and writer of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation, explores her own journey to becoming…
    Podcast
    September 9, 2013

    For Discrimination:
    Race, Affirmative Action and the Law

    Randall Kennedy

    Kennedy—a Harvard Law professor, former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and author of the New York Times best-seller Nigger: The Strange…
    GalleryPodcast
    July 31, 2017

    Moving the Center:
    African Literature in African Languages

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Richard Ali A Mutu

    Two generations of African writers—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, an elder statesman from Kenya, and Richard Ali A Mutu, a young novelist…