Media Archive

The Coming Reformation of Islam:
A Conversation

Reza Aslan

Join two brilliant scholars of religion for a fascinating discussion on the internal conflict within Islam over the scope and…

A Night Listener

Armistead Maupin

In this program presented by the  Hot Off the Press series, a predecessor to ALOUD, Armistead Maupin discusses his book,…

The Assassins’ Gate:
America in Iraq

George Packer

Packer, award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, explores the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by our…

Fledgling

Octavia Butler

Butler, one of the world’s great science fiction writers, explores the limits of  “otherness” in her new novel — the…

The Challenge for Africa

Wangari Muta Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over…

The Future of African American Literature
and the Paradox of Progress

Attica Locke

Locke, whose new novel The Cutting Season is set at a Louisiana plantation re-purposed for weddings and Civil War reenactments,…

Beautiful Acts of Attention:
Performance and Conversation

Jeremy Denk

One of America’s most talented pianists (Musical America’s 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year), and thought-provoking writers on music, Jeremy Denk…

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Leading philosopher of science Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in his latest…

How to Survive a Plague:
The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France, Dr. Mark H. Katz

In his new book, How to Survive a Plague, David France– the creator of the Oscar-nominated seminal documentary of the…

Moonglow

Michael Chabon

In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s…