Enchantment and Ruin: Mario Coyula’s Havana 1 days ago Read More 
Alluring Wreckage: from Robert Polidori’s impressions of Centro Havana, facing the Malecon
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Architect Mario Coyula. (43 minutes, 20 mb mp3)
Havana by now...
Our Music Man in Havana: Bobby Carcasses 2 days ago Read More
The polite name for it was folklore, but it was the daily stuff of peoples’ lives. Dancing and music were never very far away, It didn’t mean people were happy. It meant that — not for all Cubans,...
Grand Strategy: Posen on Obama 19 days ago Read More
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Barry Posen (33 min, 15 MB)
Barry Posen is a very smart, connected foreign-policy “realist” who runs the MIT Security Studies Program. He was one of th...
In the Obama Moment: Robert Coover 29 days ago Read More
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Robert Coover. (47 minutes, 22 mb mp3)
Robert Coover: Where we’ve always been…
Robert Coover — in contrast to Rick Moody — would give you the measure of...
In the Obama Moment: Rick Moody 33 days ago Read More
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Rick Moody: Rabbit’s kids reach middle age
The novelist Rick Moody is one measure of what has changed. He has been k...
Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies 48 days ago Read More
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Amitav Ghosh. (67 minutes, 31 mb mp3)
Amitav Ghosh: on addiction and amnesia
The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh brings the British Empire to life again — ...
Our Better Angel: Chris Adrian 55 days ago Read More
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Chris Adrian: Pain’s Artist, Doctor, Minister
The writer Chris Adrian is a medical doctor, a pediatric oncologist,...
This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: John Comaroff 58 days ago Read More
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with John Comaroff. (52 minutes, 24 mb mp3)
The Obama Moment in America reminds the Chicago anthropologist John Comaroff of the Mandela Moment in his native ...
