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• Book Talk 70: Neil Selkirk on Why Photographs?

  October 21, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

  When Neil Selkirk first saw one of Arbus’s photographs as a young man at someone’s house in London, it almost sent him screaming into the street. Unsettled and shaken, the encounter instead opened his eyes to the uncanny powers of…

• Book Talk 69: American Medium, with Eyal Peretz

  January 3, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

  What is “America” not only as a political entity but in our imagination? How can we properly envision America, without repeating clichés that frame America as either reactionary or revolutionary, repressive or liberatory? I spoke with Eyal…

• Free Speech 72: What is Free Speech with Fara Dabhoiwala

  October 9, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min

  The speech debates have not abated, and it’s clear that invoking the First Amendment, and the importance of free speech for democracy, does not settle these debates but provokes more questions. We have lost our way, it seems, since people…

• Book Talk 69: Uncanny E.T.A. Hoffmann with Peter Wortsman

  October 2, 2025 · 1 hr 27 min

  Step into the unsettling world of E.T.A. Hoffmann with translator Peter Wortsman to explore “The Sandman”—a tale that haunted Freud enough to spark his famous psychoanalytic analysis of “The Uncanny,” examining familiar things that…

• Book Talk 68: Ham’s Heaven with Ori Gersht

  September 11, 2025 · 1 hr 4 min

  Listen to Ori Gersht speak about his novel Ham’s Heaven (Warbler Press, 2025). Inspired by the true story of the first great ape in space, it explores the friendship of an ape and his trainer to examine what we do with animals in the name…

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