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Exit West

Mohsin Hamid and Viet Thanh Nguyen

New York Times bestselling author Mohsin Hamid returns to ALOUD to discuss his latest novel Exit West, a visionary love story that imagines the…

The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

Rick Hasen

During his long tenure on the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia—engaging as well as caustic and openly ideological—moved the Court to…

Misfits Unite

Lidia Yuknavitch, Amber Tamblyn

“What if, for once in history, a woman’s story could be untethered from what we need it to be in…

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Gained Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler

In his new book, UCLA law professor Adam Winkler offers a revelatory portrait of how U.S. corporations have seized political…

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú

For award-winning writer and former agent for the United States Border Patrol Francisco Cantú, the border is in his blood:…

The Monk of Mokha

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

Antonio Damasio

What moved humans to create cultures—intelligent systems including the arts, morality, science, government, and technology? The answer to this question…

Haiku in Zapotec: From Oaxaca to Japan and Back

Jane Hirshfield and Víctor Terán

Because of its similar celebration of the beauty of the natural world and focus on compactness, contemporary Zapotec-language poetry shares…

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

Winner of a 2017 Pulitzer Prize, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on the infamous 1971 Attica Prison riot…

Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe

Víctor Cata, Bamby Salcedo, Maritza Sanchez

THIS PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. Anthropologists have traced the Meso-American acceptance of people of mixed gender…