Next Week On WV
We talk with Rabih Alameddine about his wonderful novel, THE HAKAWATI. Also, Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, tells us about SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits–and the President–Failed on Iraq.
This Week On WV
We talk with novelists Elizabeth Strout and Adam Mansbach. Strout’s new book, OLIVE KITTREDGE, uses a collection of short stories to create a novel about the inhabitants of a coastal town in Maine. (more…)
Latest Podcast
May 6th, 2008
The news today about a possible war impending between Georgia and Russia is prefigured in our first interview: host Francesca Rheannon talks with energy security expert Michael Klare about the dangerous new global order of energy politics — winners and losers, flashpoints of conflict, and what it means for democracy and the environment. His book is RISING POWERS, SHRINKING PLANET: The New Geopolitics of Energy. In our conversation Klare notes that Georgia could the the flashpoint not only of war between Russia and Georgia–but between Russia and the United States.
Also, New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau broke the story on warrantless domestic spying. His book is BUSH’S LAW: The Remaking of American Justice.
