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City Arts & Lectures
Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 publi...
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Gloria Steinem - In Memoriam
This week, we remember the life of Gloria Steinem – legendary feminist, activist, and journalist, with a rebroadcast of a conversation recorded in San...
Encore - Robert Reich
Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, is one of today’s leading voices addressing issues of income inequality. Reich served...
Edwidge Danticat
Essayist and novelist Edwidge Danticat moved from Port-au-Prince to the United States at the age of twelve and began writing about Haitian culture and...
Laverne Cox
Emmy-nominated actress and activist Laverne Cox rose to fame through her role on Orange is the New Black, quickly becoming an important voice for tran...
Encore - Arundhati Roy
This is an encore presentation of a program originally broadcast in October of 2025. Arundhati Roy’s internationally best-selling novels include The G...
Encore - Vivek Murthy
Dr. Vivek Murthy served as the Surgeon General of the United States under both Presidents Obama and Biden. In that capacity, Murthy shaped the feder...
Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi is a celebrated chef and bestselling cookbook author whose newest book, Simple Too, comes out in October 2026. He is the restaurateur...
Eddie Huang
Eddie Huang has found success in a dizzying variety of fields, including law, comedy, food, and literature. In his 2013 memoir - Fresh Off The Boat...
Bella Freud
This week, our guest is Bella Freud, clothing designer and host of Fashion Neurosis, a conversation podcast about the connection between clothes and...
David Szalay
This week, our guest is David Szalay. His novel – Flesh – was winner of the 2025 Man Booker Prize. The story begins in Hungary, and it stays close to...
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
This week, our guest is Elizabeth Pryor – a professor of history at Smith College, whose work focuses on the histories of race and slavery in the Uni...
Lena Dunham
This week, our guest is Lena Dunham, best known as the creator of Girls, an HBO series about a group of 20-somethings that one critic called “a gener...
Jose Andres
José Andrés is widely recognized for both his culinary achievements – including two Michelin stars, and 40 restaurants worldwide – and his humanitaria...
Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes is a writer on U.S. and global politics. A contributor to the New York Times and MSNOW, and co-host of Pod Save the World, Ben has authored...
Boots Riley
This week, our guest is Boots Riley, an Oakland-based filmmaker and founding member of the seminal hip hop group, The Coup. Like his music, Riley’s fi...
Adam Mansbach & Kamau Bell - PODCAST ONLY, EXPLICIT LANGUAGE ADVISORY
NOTE: This is a PODCAST-ONLY program - the titles and contents of Adam Mansbach's books have NOT been bleeped!
Adam Mansbach is a novelist, sc...
Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen
This week, a conversation about children’s literature with author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen. Barnett is National Ambassador for Young Pe...
Jeff Hiller
This week, our guest is Jeff Hiller. The veteran comedian and actor is hardly a newcomer, but it’s his recent role on the television series Somebody S...
Sir Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby
Demis Hassabis is an artificial intelligence researcher, scientist, and entrepreneur. In 2010, he co-founded DeepMind, an AI research lab which is no...
Encore - Yuval Harari
This is an encore of a program originally distributed in 2024. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and author, and one of the world’s most...
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is one of the most significant American photographers of the late 20th and 21st centuries. Over a career spanning more than four decades, M...
Tourmaline - "The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson"
Legendary activist Marsha P. Johnson was one of the most remarkable figures in LGBTQ+ history – central to the Stonewall Riots and the gay liberation...
Meghan Riepenhoff
The work of acclaimed photographer Meghann Riepenhoff examines our relationship to nature and time, both in subject-matter and process. In projects li...
Encore - Jhumpa Lahiri
This is an encore presentation of a program first broadcast in 2023. In 2000, Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladi...
Encore - Meg Wolitzer
We’re going back to the archives for a 2019 conversation with Meg Wolitzer, whose best-selling books include The Interestings and The Ten-Year Nap. Wo...
Encore - Charlie Kaufman
This week, we’re returning to a conversation with Charlie Kaufman, recorded in 2020. Kaufman is the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind some of the most...
Carmen Maria Machado on "I Who Have Never Known Men"
Writer Carmen Maria Machado discusses “I Who Have Never Known Men”, a 1995 novel by Jacqueline Harpman that was republished in 2022 to great acclaim. ...
A Celebration of Eleanor Coppola, featuring Sofia Coppola
Eleanor Coppola (1936 – 2024) was a conceptual artist and documentary filmmaker. She met her husband, Francis Coppola, in 1962, when she worked as As...
Encore - Ross Gay
This is an encore of a program originally broadcast in May of 2025.
Ross Gay is a writer with a mission: to help readers explore the be...
Angela Davis with Deepa Fernandez
The iconic activist and philosopher Angela Davis has been a major influence in global politics for more than 50 years. Davis first gained fame in the...
Encore - Frank Gehry
This week, we’re celebrating the life of architect Frank Gehry, with a conversation recorded in 2015.
Widely regarded as one of the most influe...
Encore - Rachel Kushner
Our guest is Rachel Kushner. Her writing includes novels like The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers, and essays on everything from prison abolition to a...
Padma Lakshmi
This week, our guest is Padma Lakshmi. As host of shows like Taste the Nation and Top Chef, Lakshmi champions cooks and eaters from across cultures. S...
Salman Rushdie
This week, our guest is Salman Rushdie. Over the course of six decades, Rushdie has made a profound impact on literature and free speech. He is the au...
Richard Misrach
This week, our guest is Richard Misrach — one of the most influential voices in contemporary photography. His work appears in major museum collections...
Susan Orlean
This week, our guest is Susan Orlean, the author of The Orchid Thief, The Library Book, and On Animals. Whether exploring the eccentric world of orchi...
Andrew Ross Sorkin
This week, our guest is Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial news reporter at The New York Times, and co-anchor of Squawk Box on CNBC. His new book is 1929...
Daniel Handler & Andrew Sean Greer
Daniel Handler’s sardonic sense of humor and deep pathos have engaged readers across genres for over twenty-five years. Handler’s best known for his s...
Jeff Chang with Shereen Marisol Miraji
Author and cultural critic Jeff Chang's new book is “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America”. The world’s most celebrated marti...
Arundhati Roy & Deepa Fernandes
Arundhati Roy’s internationally best-selling novels include The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Her nonfiction works engage...