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The End of Capitalism: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment

Yanis Varoufakis

What happens when you take on the establishment? Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis gives a…

The Mars Room

Rachel Kushner

From the twice National Book Award–nominated and bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner offers a heart-stopping new novel, The Mars Room,…

An Evening with Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Master American chronicler Tom Wolfe, author of more than a dozen books—including, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and The…

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

Dr. Temple Grandin

Grandin offers remarkable insights into animal behavior from her unique position at the intersection of autism and science. In her…

Not Uniquely Human: The Astonishing Connection Between Human and Animal Health

Laurel Braitman, Kathryn Bowers, Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

In their groundbreaking book Zoobiquity, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and science writer Kathryn Bowers describe how they arrived at a pan-species approach…

Should We Praise the Mutilated World? Poetry from California to Krakow

Bob Hass and Adam Zagajewski

Two of the world’s greatest living poets come together for a rare Los Angeles reading and conversation. The work of…

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

In this recording from ALOUD’s early years, Ursula K. Le Guin reads and discusses her 2000 science fiction novel The…

West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders & Killers in the Golden State

Mark Arax

Arax, a native son, spent four years traveling the breadth of the Golden State to explore its singular place in…

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…

What Light Can Do: Writing as Attention

Robert Hass

Hass, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, is also a luminous essayist. In this talk and…