Archive for May, 2010
Whose Words These Are (27): Dan Chiasson, the Natural
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Dan Chiasson. (50 minutes, 24 mb mp3)
Dan Chiasson has the easy charm of a natural New England oracle, in a tradition encompassing Emily Dickinson and William James, Robert Frost and Robert Lowell. When he reads the poem “Train” from …
Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns
Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist and abolitionist, becomes a supreme literary artist and a "modern" in Damion Searls' new edition of Thoreau's Journal.
Whose Words These Are (26): Pulitzer Poet Rae Armantrout
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout brings her quizzical voice among the Language Poets to our "Whose Words These Are" series.
Kai Bird: Cancel the Apocalypse
Kai Bird looks back on a childhood in Jerusalem and finds, 50 years later, a path away from apocalyptic thinking.
Amartya Sen: This Open-Ended "Year of India" (8)
Amartya Sen, Nobel economist, gives us a wide angle history of India.
Graham Robb's Paris: 18 Arrested Explosions
Graham Robb takes us through his "adventure history" of Paris, the story of a city's life and citizens in 18 irresistible anecdotes.
Bill McKibben: Coming into View, Another Eaarth
Bill McKibben, environmental writer and activist, says we're living on a new planet -- not the bright blue "earthrise" bubble the astronauts saw 40 years ago.
David Remnick: The "Race" Route over Obama’s "Bridge"
David Remnick's biography puts Barack Obama's racial "otherness" at the center of both triumph and trouble.
