Today’s episode of Between the Covers is a conversation with poet and classicist Alice Oswald. Widely considered one of our great living poets, Oswald is the 46th professor of poetry at the University of Oxford, and the first woman to hold the poetry chair in its over three centuries of existence. Perhaps best known for Memorial, […]
Nov 22
Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison
<p>Caren Beilin’s first appearance on the show, in 2022 to discuss her book Revenge of the Scapegoat, was so unforgettable, and spurred so much enthusiasm and electrifying conversation in its wake, that I couldn’t say “no” to being in conversation with her again, this time live a ... Show More
1h 16m
May 2022
John Waters Talks About His First Novel
<p>The filmmaker, artist, author and general cultural icon John Waters visits the podcast this week to talk about his first novel, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/books/review-liarmouth-john-waters.html" target="_blank">“Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance.”</a> The book fe ... Show More
33m 23s
Feb 2024
Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir
Judith Butler joins Adam Shatz to discuss a landmark in feminist thought, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949). Dazzling in its scope, The Second Sex incorporates anthropology, psychology, historiography, mythology and biology to ask an ‘impossible’ question: what is a woma ... Show More
12m 41s
May 2021
Ali Smith on Barbara Hepworth, Pauline Boty, Tacita Dean, and Lorenza Mazzetti
In episode 64 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews the acclaimed writer ALI SMITH (!!!!) on Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth, Tacita Dean and Lorenza Mazzetti !!!!
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1h 5m
Oct 2020
Alice et moi : “Toute sa vie, elle se jette dans l’inconnu”
Alice et moi est chanteuse. Après le succès à l’automne 2018 de son titre “J’veux sortir avec un rappeur », elle vient de finir l’écriture de son premier album, qui sortira début 2021. Le prénom Alice et moi, c’est tout simplement parce qu’ “il y a Alice, et puis il y a moi”. Un ... Show More
16m 50s
Jul 2020
Radical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our Times
<p>In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join<span> </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span> </span>to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberat ... Show More
45m 41s
Feb 2021
Alice Waters: My life in five dishes
Alice Waters is one of America’s most influential chefs and food writers. In the 1970s she led a food revolution that sparked a movement towards local, sustainable, organic food. Alice tells Emily Thomas about her life, from a suburban childhood in New Jersey to the radical polit ... Show More
34m 6s
Mar 2021
Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines
<p>Kazuo Ishigruo’s eighth novel, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/books/review/klara-and-the-sun-kazuo-ishiguro.html" target="_blank">“Klara and the Sun,”</a> is his first since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It’s narrated by Klara, an Artificial Frien ... Show More
1h 10m