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January 2022
- Howard Mansfield, CHASING EDEN
- Thor Hanson, HURRICANE LIZARDS AND PLASTIC SQUID & Beth Shapiro, LIFE AS WE MADE IT
- David Wengrow, THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING
December 2021
- Ten Best Author Interviews of 2021
- Holiday Special: THE FOOD PHILOSOPHE, A Story for the Solstice
- Ben Sheehan, WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION SAY? & Noah Feldman, THE BROKEN CONSTITUTION
- Leonard Rubenstein, PERILOUS MEDICINE & Stan Cox, THE PATH TO A LIVABLE FUTURE
- Edith Widder, BELOW THE EDGE OF DARKNESS & Sy Montgomery, TAMED & UNTAMED
November 2021
- Eyal Press, DIRTY WORK & Melanie Joy, WHY WE LOVE DOGS, EAT PIGS, AND WEAR COWS
- David Talbot, BY THE LIGHT OF BURNING DREAMS
- Ken Follett, NEVER & Anthony Horowitz, A LINE TO KILL
- Joe Lee, FORGIVENESS & Valerie Martin, I GIVE IT TO YOU
October 2021
- Victor Wooten, THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC & David Stebenne, PROMISED LAND
- Ruth Ozeki, THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS & Hilma Wolitzer, TODAY A WOMAN WENT MAD IN THE SUPERMARKET
- Geo Maher, A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE and John Cavanagh & Robin Broad, THE WATER DEFENDERS
- Jai Chakrabarti, A PLAY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD & Caroline Lea, THE METAL HEART
- Transcript: Raj Patel and Rupa Marya Interview about INFLAMED
September 2021
- Raj Patel and Rupa Marya, INFLAMED & Jimmie Allen, MY VOICE IS A TRUMPET
- Saul Griffith, ELECTRIFY: An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future
- William deBuys, TRAIL TO KANJIROBA & James Rebanks, PASTORAL SONG
- Ray McGinnis UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored
- Writer’s Voice: Migdalia Cruz, MACBETH & Michael Blanding NORTH BY SHAKESPEARE
- Julia Sweig, LADY BIRD JOHNSON & Michael Klare on the Pentagon, China and Climate
August 2021
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS & The And I Thought Ladies
- Jennie Romer, CAN I RECYCLE THIS? & Catherine Raven, FOX AND I
- Elizabeth Hinton, AMERICA ON FIRE
- Ross Barkan, THE PRINCE & Chuck Collins, THE WEALTH HOARDERS
July 2021
- Megha Majumdhar, A BURNING & Gigi Georges, DOWNEAST
- Nina Burleigh, VIRUS & Celia Jeffries, BLUE DESERT
- Joseph Illidge on Diversity in Super Hero Comics
- Ann Armbrecht, THE BUSINESS OF BOTANICALS
- WEB EXTRA: Ann Armbrecht, THIN PLACES (full interview)
June 2021
- Cal Flyn, ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT & James Romm, THE SACRED BAND
- Dr. Michael Okun, ENDING PARKINSON'S DISEASE & Lionel Shriver, SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO
- Judy Batalion, THE LIGHT OF DAYS & Lissa Evans, V FOR VICTORY
- Carey Gillam, THE MONSANTO PAPERS & John Englander, MOVING TO HIGHER GROUND
May 2021
- Michaeleen Doucleff, HUNT, GATHER, PARENT & Sherry Turkle, THE EMPATHY DIARIES
- Milo Beckman, MATH WITHOUT NUMBERS & Giles Sparrow, A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE IN 21 STARS
- Carl Hart, DRUG USE FOR GROWNUPS & Hari Ziyad, BLACK BOY OUT OF TIME
April 2021
- Julia Fine, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE & Lisa Scottoline, ETERNAL
- Eliot Peper, VEIL & Paul Greenberg, THE CLIMATE DIET
- Simon Winchester, LAND & Isabella Tree, WILDING
- Anna North OUTLAWED & Emily St. John Mandel, THE GLASS HOTEL
- Nancy Folbre, The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems & Catherine Rothenberg & Lynne Segal, The Care Manifesto
March 2021
- Elizabeth Kolbert, UNDER A WHITE SKY & Ian Shive, THE LAST UNKNOWN
- Suketu Mehta, THIS LAND IS OUR LAND & Lew Daly, FALSE SOLUTIONS
- Abdul El Sayed & Micah Johnson, MEDICARE FOR ALL: A Citizen’s Guide & Norton Juster Remembered
- Dean Spade, MUTUAL AID & Rachel Louise Snyder, NO VISIBLE BRUISES
February 2021
- Writer’s Voice: Jenny Offill, WEATHER & Ben Ehrenreich, DESERT NOTEBOOKS
- Heather McGhee, THE SUM OF US & Michelle Commander, UNSUNG
- Rebecca Sacks, CITY OF A THOUSAND GATES & Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water
- Michael Mann, THE NEW CLIMATE WAR & John Nichols on Covid9 relief
January 2021
- Paul Pitcoff, COLD WAR SECRETS & Laura Levitt, THE OBJECTS THAT REMAIN
- Guido Girgenti, WINNING THE GREEN NEW DEAL & Ian Shive, REFUGE
- Hugh Raffles, THE BOOK OF UNCONFORMITIES & More
- Meghan Herron, DECODING YOUR CAT & Amy Sutherland, RESCUING PENNY JANE
December 2020
- Michael Lerner, REVOLUTIONARY LOVE & A 2020 Look-back on Building Solidarity
- Tamara Payne on Les Payne’s THE DEAD ARE ARISING
- Victoria Bond, ZORA AND ME & Irene Butter, SHORES BEYOND SHORES
- Tim Wise, DISPATCHES FROM THE RACE WAR & Mehrdad Azemun
- Could A "Weapon of Mass Connection" win Georgia for the Dems?
- Jess Walter, THE COLD MILLIONS & Lara Vapnek, REBEL GIRL
November 2020
- Bryan Washington, MEMORIAL & Nicole Krauss, TO BE A MAN
- Elisa Gabbert, THE UNREALITY OF MEMORY
- Les Leopold, DEFIANT GERMAN—DEFIANT JEW & Anthony Horowitz, MOONFLOWER MURDERS
- Stephen Snyder THE MEMORY POLICE & Marian Lindberg SCANDAL ON PLUM ISLAND
- Will Trump Go? A Post-Election Day Reaction from Lawrence Douglas
October 2020
- Thomas Frank, THE PEOPLE, NO
- Jane Kleeb, HARVEST THE VOTE & Eric Holthaus, THE FUTURE EARTH
- Katherine Kinzler, HOW YOU SAY IT & David Graeber, DEBT
- Matt Stoller, GOLIATH & Thomas Frank on Populism
- Douglas Boin, ALARIC THE GOTH & Jim Walsh on the Fracking Ban Bill
September 2020
- Lawrence Douglas, WILL HE GO? & Jessica Bohrer, YOUR VOICE IS YOUR SUPERPOWER
- Transcript: Excerpt from Interview with John Nichols
- John Nichols, THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY & Chuck Rocha, TÍO BERNIE
- Ted Rall POLITICAL SUICIDE & Max Elbaum on the Left & Biden
- Pawan Dhingra, HYPEREDUCATION & J. Chester Johnson, DAMAGED HERITAGE
August 2020
- Margot Livesy, THE BOY IN THE FIELD & Frank Huyler, WHITE HOT LIGHT
- Max Elbaum: What's At Stake for the Left in the 2020 Election?
- Phillip A. Neel, HINTERLAND
- Greg Palast, HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020
- Shaun King, MAKE CHANGE & Greg Palast, HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020
July 2020
- K.L. Cook, THE ART OF DISOBEDIENCE & A Quarantine Poem
- Larry Tye, DEMAGOGUE & Ellen Meeropol, HER SISTER'S TATTOO
- The Fracking Ban Law
- Stephanie Kelton, THE DEFICIT MYTH, Books Picks & Poetry by Meg Fisher
- Emma Copley Eisenberg, THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL & Diane Gilliam Fisher, Kettle Bottom
- Jennifer Steil, EXILE MUSIC & L. Annette Binder, THE VANISHING SKY
June 2020
- Sue Monk Kidd , THE BOOK OF LONGINGS & Monique Morris, PUSHOUT
- Elizabeth Wetmore VALENTINE & Carol Anderson, WHITE RAGE
- Abdul El-Sayed HEALING POLITICS & David Moloney, BARKER HOUSE
- Barry Sonnenfeld, BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER & Katy Simpson Smith, THE EVERLASTING
May 2020
- Tyson Yunkaporta, SAND TALK: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
- Scott Turow, THE LAST TRIAL & Kathryn Levy on the NY Primary
- Alan Hirsch, A SHORT HISTORY OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CRISES & Micah Uetricht, BIGGER THAN BERNIE
- Michael Klare: Covid-19 Is Forcing Us to Rethink How We Consume Energy
- Rory MacLean, PRAVDA HA-HA & Michael Klare, Covid-19 & The Food Crisis
April 2020
- William Evans, WE INHERIT WHAT THE FIRES LEFT & Matt Stoller, Antitrust After the Coronavirus
- Carl Safina, BECOMING WILD & Margaret Klein Salamon, FACING THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
- Deborah Paredez, YEAR OF THE DOG & Vincent Emanuele, The New Normal
- What Happens After Bernie? A Conversation with Micah Uetricht
- Helen Fremont, The Escape Artist & Branko Marcetic on Tara Reade & Joe Biden
- Branko Marcetic: Joe Biden Is No Al Franken
- Barry McCallion, Book Artist of The Oarsman & Matthew Rose, A Book About Death
March 2020
- Branko Marcetic, YESTERDAY'S MAN & Wendell Potter on Medicare For All
- Sinéad Gleeson, CONSTELLATIONS & Therese Anne Fowler, A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD
- Robert Pollin on the COVID19 Stimulus Bill
- Peter Heller, THE RIVER & Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
- Judy Foreman, EXERCISE IS MEDICINE & Michael Zapata, THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU
- John Nichols on Billionaire Candidacies & Lucy Hughes-Hallet, FABULOUS
February 2020
- Greg Palast (full interview) on Court Victory in Georgia Voting Case
- Deborah Shaffer & Rachel Reichman on QUEEN OF HEARTS, plus Greg Palast on his court victory
- Writers Voice: Isabella Tree, WILDING & Jeet Heer on Iowa and Beyond
- Web Only Extra: Daniel Judt on Australia's Wildfires
- Michael Klare, ALL HELL BREAKING LOOSE, Christian Parenti, Tropic Of Chaos & Review of new Hilary Davidson thriller
January 2020
- Sara Matthiesen on Bernie’s Feminism & Helaine Olen on Joe Biden’s Record on Social Security
- Alyss Thomas, THE JOURNAL WRITER’S COMPANION & Gareth St. John Thomas, FINDING TRUE CONNECTIONS
- An Hour With WWII Spymaster Fiction Master Alan Furst
- New Year’s Looks Back: William Greider, Harold Bloom, Peter Yarrow, Rev. William Barber
December 2019
- Writer’s Voice Ten Best of 2019
- Nathan Robinson, WHY YOU SHOULD BE A SOCIALIST & Michael Klare
- Richard Louv, OUR WILD CALLING & Carl Safina, BEYOND WORDS
November 2019
- Writers Voice: David Silverman, THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND & Native American scholar Marge Bruchac
- Mimi Lemay, What We Will Become & Senator Sherrod Brown, Desk 88
- Paul Theroux, ON THE PLAIN OF SNAKES
- Monique Morris, SING A RHYTHM, DANCE A BLUES & Ben Ehrenreich on the California Wildfires
- Amitav Ghosh, GUN ISLAND & Aarti Shahani, HERE WE ARE
October 2019
- Ryan Grim, WE’VE GOT PEOPLE & Jeet Heer on the Dems
- Virginia Eubanks, AUTOMATING INEQUALITY
- John Nichols on Impeachment, D.D. Guttenplan on Bernie-Warren & Les Leopold on Runaway Inequality
- James Hoggan, I’M RIGHT AND YOU’RE AN IDIOT & David Bollier, FREE, FAIR AND ALIVE
September 2019
- Paul Rosalie THE GIRL AND THE TIGER & Jim Rousmaniere, WATER CONNECTIONS
- Dan Werb, CITY OF OMENS & Michael Mann on the Youth Climate Movement
- Paul Tough, THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST & Kristina Rizga, MISSION HIGH
- Cory Doctorow, RADICALIZED & MAKERS
August 2019
- Julie Orringer, THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO & Robert Matzen, DUTCH GIRL
- Jayson Greene, ONCE MORE WE SAW STARS & Mitchell S. Jackson, SURVIVAL MATH
- Octavio Solis, RETABLOS & Don Arbor, singer-songwriter
- Rachel Louise Snyder, NO VISIBLE BRUISES & Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, LOADED
- Thomas Lockley, AFRICAN SAMURAI & John Nichols on the Democratic Debate
July 2019
- Paul Kaplan, NEW YORK’S PENN STATION & Bram Presser THE BOOK OF DIRT
- Christian McEwen, LEGAL TENDER & Elie Mystal on Trump’s Court
- Stephen Davis, TRUTHTELLER & Anthony Horowitz, THE SENTENCE IS DEATH
June 2019
- Thomas Frank on “populism” & Donna Murch on mass incarceration
- Christina Proenza-Coles, AMERICAN FOUNDERS & Sara Collins, THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON
- Eve Ensler, THE APOLOGY & INSECURE AT LAST
- Fighting Ageism: Ashton Applewhite, THIS CHAIR ROCKS & Dr. Louise Aronson, ELDERHOOD
May 2019
- Gregory Pardlo, AIR TRAFFIC and Robert Pollin on NY’s Climate and Community Protection Act
- Eric Blanc, RED STATE REVOLT & Dale Russakoff, THE PRIZE
- Lori Gottlieb, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE and Bev Thomas, A GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER
April 2019
- Glenn Silber, THE WAR AT HOME
- Benjamin Dreyer, DREYER’S ENGLISH & Kitty Burns Florey, SISTER BERNADETTE’S BARKING DOG
- Louise Shelley: DARK COMMERCE, Wendell Potter: Attacks on Medicare4All & Erik Grafe: Upholding the Offshore Drilling Ban
March 2019
- Damion Searls on Uwe Johnson’s ANNIVERSARIES & Peter Filkins, H. G. ADLER
- Wendell Potter: "Democrats On The Take" fight Medicare For All
- DaMaris Hill, A BOUND WOMAN IS A DANGEROUS THING & Stephen Nash, GRAND CANYON FOR SALE
- Bill Henderson, ALL MY DOGS & David Lindorff on Pentagon Fraud
- Nora Krug, BELONGING & Roz Chast, GOING INTO TOWN
- Etaf Rum, A WOMAN IS NO MAN
February 2019
- Fred Block, CAPITALISM: The Future of An Illusion & Les Leopold, "Beware the Moderate Democrat"
- Writers Voice: Briallen Hopper, HARD TO LOVE
- Paul Kaplan, LILIAN WALD & Susan Bohan, TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE
January 2019
- Howard Mansfield, THE HABIT OF TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN & more
- Delia Owens, WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, Barbara Kingsolver & More
- "The Cure Hunter" from Province of the Heart
- David Treuer, THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE
- Jules Feiffer, THE GHOST SCRIPT, Art Spiegelman, BREAKDOWNS & Amos Oz Remembered
December 2018
- Writers Voice: Mary Pipher, WOMEN ROWING NORTH & Looking Back At 2018
- Writers Voice: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, FRIDAY BLACK & Mark Russell Gelade, NAVIGATING BY STARS
- Ken Krimstein, THE THREE ESCAPES OF HANNAH ARENDT & Kate Evans, RED ROSA
- Ariel Burger, WITNESS & Ani Tuzman, THE TREMBLE OF LOVE
- Ariel Burger Interview Segment: Elie Wiesel and Palestinian Rights
November 2018
- Sy Montgomery, HOW TO BE A GOOD CREATURE & Earl Swift, CHESAPEAKE REQUIEM
- Anthony Horowitz, FOREVER AND A DAY & Maxine Rosaler, QUEEN FOR A DAY
- George Yancy, BACKLASH
- Chris Feliciano Arnold, THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER
- Lawrence Goldstone, UNPUNISHED MURDER & Susan Wood, ELIZABETH WARREN
October 2018
- Anand Giridharadas, WINNERS TAKE ALL & Nathan Schneider, EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE
- Tana French, THE WYCH ELM & THE TRESPASSER
- Tatjana Soli, THE REMOVES & Charles Mann, 1491
- Aida Edemariam, THE WIFE'S TALE & Russell Powell, APPLES OF NEW ENGLAND
September 2018
- James Loewen, LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME & Lois Lowry, FUN AND GAMES
- Arundhati Roy, THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS & Imogen Hermes Gowar, THE MERMAID AND MRS. HANCOCK
- Irwin Redlener, THE FUTURE OF US & Barbara Oakley, LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
August 2018
- Cory Taylor, HOW HITLER WAS MADE & Nicholas Kusnetz on new anti-protest laws
- Carl Hoffman, THE LAST WILD MEN OF BORNEO & Dale Peterson, THE GHOSTS OF GOMBE
- Aaron Carroll, The Bad Food Bible & Kristin Lawless, Formerly Known As Food
- Steven Stoll, RAMP HOLLOW & Rachel Cleetus, Underwater
- Cathryn Hankla, LOST PLACES: On Losing And Finding Home & Francesca Rheannon on "Finding Home"
- Excerpt: "Finding Home" from PROVINCE OF THE HEART by Francesca Rheannon
July 2018
- Transcript: Sandra Steingraber on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
- Sandra Steingraber on Rachel Carson’s SILENT SPRING & Carey Gillam on Roundup
- T. J. English, THE CORPORATION & HAVANA NOCTURNE
- Martin Puchner, THE WRITTEN WORLD
- July 4 Special: Danielle Allen, Our Declaration & Anthony Lewis, Freedom For The Thought That We Hate
June 2018
- Elizabeth Rush, Rising & Lynn Zinsser of Climate Liability News
- Barbara Lipska, THE NEUROSCIENTIST WHO LOST HER MIND, Audrea Lim on Puerto Rican Farmer Brigades & More
- David Margolick, THE PROMISE AND THE DREAM & Alex Perry, THE GOOD MOTHERS
- Our Eroding Democracy: Steven Levitsky, Ted Rall, Harmon Leon
- Larry Tye, BOBBY KENNEDY & Stephen Kiernan, THE BAKER'S SECRET
May 2018
- Two Masters of Crime Fiction: Elizabeth George & Anthony Horowitz
- Jay Wertz, THE WORLD TURNS TO WAR & Susan Abulhawa, The Blue Between Sky and Water
- Lauren Markham, The Far Away Brothers & Others on Immigration
- Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists, Matt Haig, How To Stop Time, & Vandana Shiva, Creative Civil Disobedience
April 2018
- Vandana Shiva, CREATIVE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
- Kathryn Levy, REPORTS & Mark Eleveld, THE SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION REDUX
- Menno Schilthuizen, DARWIN COMES TO TOWN & George Kourounis, ANGRY PLANET
- Philip Schultz, LUXURY (Full Interview)
- Mark Hertsgaard, How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe & Philip Schultz, LUXURY
- Ronen Bergman, RISE AND KILL FIRST & Norman Finkelstein GAZA
March 2018
- Sarah Zaske, ACHTUNG BABY & Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, THE DEEPEST WELL
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, LOADED & Gregg Levine on Fukushima Daichi Radiation
- Gregg Levine, "7 Years on, Sailors Exposed to Fukushima Radiation Seek Their Day in Court"
- Francis Moore Lappé & Adam Eichen, Daring Democracy
- Carey Gillam, WHITEWASH & Philip Ackerman-Leist, A PRECAUTIONARY TALE
February 2018
- Tara Whitsitt, Fermentation on Wheels & Katherine Harvey, The Bare Bones Broth Cookbook.
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Peculiar Ground & Morgan Babst, The Floating World
- Daniel Ellsberg, THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE & Michael Klare on Trump's Nuclear Posture Review
- Ashley Dawson On Inequality & Climate Change
January 2018
- Rob Okun, on #MeToo VOICE MALE & Ursula K. Le Guin UNREAL AND REAL
- Carl Safina Talks About Offshore Oil & Gas Drilling, Then & Now
- Brian Platzer, BED-STUY IS BURNING & Peter Moskowitz, HOW TO KILL A CITY
- Katherine Paterson, MY BRIGADISTA YEAR & Jessica Yu, GARDEN OF THE LOST AND ABANDONED
December 2017
- Jeff Goodell, THE WATER WILL COME & Lynn Zinser, Climate Liability News
- What You Need To Know: Climate Scientist Robert Kopp Discusses New Findings on Sea Level Rise
- John Michael Greer, The Retro Future & Peter Kalmus, Being The Change
- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Why We May Not Be Able To Trust Alabama's Vote Count
- Sy Montgomery, TAMED AND UNTAMED & Elizabeth Tova Bailey
November 2017
- Why Drug Costs Are So High - But Single Payer? Not So Much.
- Rita Dove, COLLECTED POEMS & Thanksgiving on WV
- Katherine Nouri Hughes, THE MAPMAKER'S DAUGHTER & Claire McKinney, DO YOU KNOW WHAT A BOOK PUBLICIST DOES?
- Damion Searls Translates Hans Keilson: 1944 DIARY & COMEDY IN A MINOR KEY
- John Nichols, HORSEMEN OF THE TRUMPOCALPYSE & Valerie Brown on the EPA and Monsanto
October 2017
- Carol Anderson, WHITE RAGE
- Remembering Poet Richard Wilbur
- John Duberstein, THE BRIGHT HOUR by Nina Riggs & Joseph Luzzi, IN A DARK WOOD
- THE BRIGHT HOUR by Nina Riggs
- Jean & David Stiles, BUILDING SMALL and Karen Flett, LIVING THE AIRSTREAM LIFE
September 2017
- Leslie Sharpe, THE QUARRY FOX and David Gessner, SOARING WITH FIDEL
- Deborah Campbell, A DISAPPEARANCE IN DAMASCUS & Melissa Fleming, A HOPE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SEA
- Marc Fasanella: RALPH FASANELLA, IMAGES OF OPTIMISM
August 2017
- Wilmer Leon, POLITICS ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE & Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
- John Tepper Marlin, TAKE UP THE SONG & Marge Piercy, SEX WARS
- Cory Doctorow, WALKAWAY & Zach Roberts on De'Andre Harris Assault in Charlottesville
- Alexandra Chasin, ASSASSIN OF YOUTH & Mason Tvert, MARIJUANA IS SAFER
July 2017
- Anthony Horowitz, MAGPIE MURDERS, Saving Net Neutrality & Summer Reading Picks
- Protecting Ourselves From Tyranny: Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny & Ryan Alford, Permanent State of Emergency
June 2017
- AMERICA & WORLD WAR ONE: Margaret Wagner & Richard Rubin
- James Forman, Jr., LOCKING UP OUR OWN
- Thrity Umrigar, EVERYBODY'S SON & Marianne Lavelle, Carl Safina
- Susan Quinn, ELEANOR AND HICK & Naomi Oreskes, THE COLLAPSE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
- Marianne Lavelle: Pulling Out of the Paris Accord & Exxon Shareholders' Revolt
May 2017
- Andrew Forsthoefel WALKING TO LISTEN & Rob Okun, VOICE MALE.
- Corban Addison, A HARVEST OF THORNS & Heather White, COMPLICIT
- Peter Moskowitz, HOW TO KILL A CITY & Steve Stollman on the Mulberry Street Gang
- Melissa Febos, ABANDON ME & Trump's Attack on Social Security &Medicare
April 2017
- Ellen Meeropol, KINSHIP OF CLOVER & Dan Natale, BAD TIDINGS
- Florence Williams, THE NATURE FIX & Sarah Williams Goldhagen, WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD
- Amy Sutherland, RESCUING PENNY JANE & Sarah Ellis, THE TRAINABLE CAT
- Gary Taubes, THE CASE AGAINST SUGAR
March 2017
- Min Jin Lee, PACHINKO & Suki Kim, WITHOUT YOU THERE IS NO US
- ARE THE DEMOCRATS OVERREACHING ON RUSSIA?
- Ceridwen Dovey, ONLY THE ANIMALS & Sally Parry on Sinclair Lewis' IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE
- Diogo Castro Freire, FACING THE SURGE & Paul Blanc, FAKE SILK
- Melissa Fleming, A HOPE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE SEA & Alan Furst, A HERO OF FRANCE
- Sebastian Barry, DAYS WITHOUT END & Adelia Saunders, INDELIBLE
February 2017
- Kimball Taylor THE COYOTE'S BICYCLE & Richard Cahan UN-AMERICAN
- Nathan J. Robinson, TRUMP: ANATOMY OF A MONSTROSITY
- Brad Gooch, RUMI'S SECRET & Samuel Bercholz, A GUIDED TOUR OF HELL
- Samuel Bercholz, A GUIDED TOUR OF HELL (Full Interview)
- Wesley Lowery, They Can’t Kill Us All & Frederick Clarkson on "Dystrumpian" Theocracy
January 2017
- Sarah van Gelder, The Revolution Where You Live (full interview)
- Tools For Activists: Ralph Nader, Breaking Through Power & Sarah van Gelder, The Revolution Where You Live
- Web Extra: Voices from the January 15 Writers Resist event in New York City
- Muslim Women’s Voices: Amani Al-Khatahbeh & Susan Abulhawa
- Thomas Frank, LISTEN, LIBERAL & New Fiction Picks
December 2016
- WV Best of 2016 & A Story For New Year's
- Ani Tuzman, THE TREMBLE OF LOVE & Terry Tempest Williams, FINDING BEAUTY IN A BROKEN WORLD
- Francine Prose: MR. MONKEY & READING LIKE A WRITER
- What You Need To Know: Field Guide To The Democracy Movement
- Nicholas Kardaras, GLOW KIDS: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids
- What You Need To Know - Greg Palast: Trump's Theft and Recounts
- Mark Schapiro, The End of Stationarity & Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
November 2016
- Katherine Harvey, Bare Bones Broth Cookbook, The True Story of Thanksgiving & “The Food Philosophe” (story)
- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Medicare Might Be Gone By Next Thanksgiving
- Tana French, THE TRESPASSER & Shaun Chamberlin, SURVIVING THE FUTURE
- Sarah Ellis, THE TRAINABLE CAT & Ted Rall, TRUMP
- Steven Hill, EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY NOW! & Election Fraud in America, Then and Now
- Steven Hill: The Wealthy Don't Pay Their Fair Share Into Social Security
- Tracy Campbell, DELIVER THE VOTE (Full Interview)
- Bev Harris: Are Minority Votes Counted As Lesser Than Other Votes?
October 2016
- Margot Livesy, MERCURY & Alice Mattison, THE KITE AND THE STRING
- Gretchen Bakke, THE GRID
- lulu Fries'dat, AN UNPREDICTABLE, HIGH-STAKES ELECTION
- Alan Schwarz, ADHD NATION & Carol Gignoux, YOUR INNOVATOR BRAIN
- Antony Loewenstein, DISASTER CAPITALISM
September 2016
- Josh Mitteldorf, CRACKING THE AGING CODE & Aaron Thiel, MR. ETERNITY
- Web Extra: Greg Palast’s new film THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY
- Jacqueline Woodson, ANOTHER BROOKLYN & Deborah Levy HOT MILK
- Is Our Vote At Risk?
- Moving Forward On The Climate: Jack Cushman, Hugh Sealy, Peter Seidel
- Dan Barry, THE BOYS IN THE BUNKHOUSE & Andrew Nagorski, THE NAZI HUNTERS
August 2016
- Ted Rall, TRUMP & Ken Silverstein on the Clinton Foundation
- Russell Banks: Voyager & Lost Memory of Skin
- David Bollier, PATTERNS OF COMMONING & Juliana Barbassa on Rio & the Olympics
- Kermit Roosevelt, ALLEGIANCE & Pamela Rotner Sakamoto (encore)
- ALLEGIANCE by Kermit Roosevelt - Excerpt
July 2016
- Wendell Potter, Nation on the Take & Adam Johnson on DNC Wikileaks
- Charlotte Rogan, Now And Again & Monique Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
- Mary Costello, ACADEMY STREET & Katha Pollitt, PRO
June 2016
- Catie Marron, City Squares & David Kishik, The Manhattan Project
- Richard Zacks: Chasing the Last Laugh & Island of Vice
- John Muir Laws, The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling & Corinne Smith, Henry David Thoreau for Kids
- Are American Elections Being Hacked? Jonathan Simon: Code Red & Commissioner Virginia Martin
May 2016
- Runaway Inequality & The Strip And Flip Selection of 2016
- George Hodgman, BETTYVILLE & Alan Teel, ALONE & INVISIBLE NO MORE
- What Happens When Your Land Gets Fracked?
- Peter Blood and Annie Patterson Rise Again & more
April 2016
- Fixing Our Broken Election System
- Fighting Fracking's "Corporate Marauders" In Pennsylvania & New York
- Two Memoirs Celebrate Our Connection With The Earth & Its Creatures
- Historian Donna Murch on The Clintons' War On Drugs, Mass Incarceration & The Black Vote
- Is Hillary Clinton Good For Women?
- Backyard Building & The Soul of Shelter
March 2016
- Ellen Meeropol: On Hurricane Island & Cecelia Tichi: Jack London
- Katy Simpson Smith, Mary Costello & Poet Amy Dryansky
- Cicero’s End, Dust Up over Sanders' Plan, & Remembering Quentin Young
- Lauret Savoy Reads From TRACE & Talks About Geoscience
- Lauret Savoy, TRACE: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
February 2016
- The Koch Bros. & Their Billionaire Web
- Linda Coleman: Radical Descent & Greg Guma on Bernie
- Greg Guma on Bernie Sanders' "Insurgent" Run
- Simon Winchester, PACIFIC & Pamela Rotner Sakamoto, MIDNIGHT IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
- Gerald Friedman: A Bernie Sanders Presidency Boosts Incomes & Jobs
- Paul Theroux, DEEP SOUTH & Ted Rall, BERNIE
January 2016
- Doug Henwood, MY TURN: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency
- Bernie Sanders Explained Plus Sue Grafton’s X
- Families In War: Novels by Susan Abulhawa & Jacqueline Sheehan
December 2015
- Paul Ehrlich on Extinction & Joseph Luzzi on Dante, Grief and Recovery
- Writer's Voice Ten Best Of 2015
- Andrea Wulf, THE INVENTION OF NATURE & Jack Cushman of Inside Climate News
- Books For Last Minute Gifts
- Graphic Biographies: Ted Rall, SNOWDEN & Kate Evans, RED ROSA
- Elizabeth George, A Banquet Of Consequences & Kenneth Wishnia, Jewish Noir
- Memories of Xenophobia: What I Learned About Christians, Jews & Muslims in Provence
- Saving Lives With Music: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
November 2015
- David Gessner on Writing And Fighting For the American West
- Angry White Men & Rape Culture: Michael Kimmel & Kate Harding
- Lesléa Newman, I Carry My Mother & Martine Bellen, This Amazing Cage Of Light
- Two Allegories: Michael Golding’s A Poet of the Invisible World & Robin Cook’s Host
October 2015
- School Reform Wrongs & Rights: Dale Russakoff, The Prize & Kristina Rizga, Mission High
- Carl Safina, BEYOND WORDS: What Animals Think And Feel
- Web Extra: Read an Excerpt & Hear Carl Safina read from BEYOND WORDS
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape & Ann Patchett's Essays
- Is The World Running Out Of Food? Joel Bourne, THE END OF PLENTY
- Juliana Barbassa on Rio on the brink & Ta Nehisi Coates on fathers and sons
September 2015
- Remembering The Revolutions of 2011
- Marcel Theroux, STRANGE BODIES & Jessica Abel, OUT ON THE WIRE
- Refugees of War: Lou Ureneck, THE GREAT FIRE & Lissa Evans, CROOKED HEART
- Sci-fi Imagines Climate Change: Paolo Bacigalupi's THE WATER KNIFE & SHIPBREAKER
August 2015
- Saving The New York Public Library
- Banking On The Extinction Of Wild Tigers
- Web Only Extra: J.A. Mills on the Climate Change Threat To Tigers
- Artists, Development Wars and Murder on Long Island's North Fork
- The Real Story Behind The Atom Bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki
July 2015
- Memory of the Survivor: Peter Filkins on H.G. Adler's THE WALL and THE JOURNEY
- Greece On The Brink & Dollar Democracy: James Angelos & Peter Mathews
- Book Excerpt: The Full Catastrophe by James Angelos
June 2015
- Dante & Melville: Great Lit As Guide For Living
- Indra Devi and The Goddess Pose
- The Promise And Perils Of The Teenage Brain
May 2015
- Emigrés from The USSR: Svetlana Stalin & Elena Gorokhova
- Excerpt from STALIN'S DAUGHTER by Rosemary Sullivan
- Hannah Nordhaus, AMERICAN GHOST & Russell Powell, APPLES OF NEW ENGLAND
- Reimagining History: Medieval & Modern
- Web Extra: Extended Interview with David Kishik
- Web Extra: Excerpt from John The Pupil by David Flusfeder
April 2015
- Why Diets Don’t Work And Supplements May Be Bad For You
- Overpopulation: Ecological Elephant In The Room?
- Web Exclusive: Per Espen Stoknes, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming
- Bill de Blasio’s Civic Experiment - Is It Working?
- Social Insecurity: 401k's & The Retirement Crisis
- Meditation For The Rest Of Us
March 2015
- Web Extra: Lara Vapnek, ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN (Extended Interview)
- How To Have A Happy Childhood
- Rebel Girls & Boys
- Master Thieves & Lethal Legacies
- The Difference Between Men & Women? The Freedom To Choose
February 2015
- The Amherst Affair: Austin, Mabel & Emily, Too
- The Power of Asking Questions: Ethel Payne, First Lady Of The Black Press
- Web Only Extra: EYE ON THE STRUGGLE: ETHEL PAYNE, FIRST LADY OF THE BLACK PRESS
- Superstorms of the 21st Century: The Battle To Save The Coasts
- What’s Wrong With Environmentalism (And How To Make It Better)
January 2015
- Kids and Character Building: What Works Best?
- Web-only Extra: Alfie Kohn on the Common Core
- Humanizing The North Koreans -- Plus, A Cartoonist's Take On Charlie Hebdo
- The Four Big Reasons America Is Falling Apart -- Plus, The Two Sides of Mario Cuomo
- Big Changes in Cuba
- Blowback in The Middle East: Matthew Hoh on Torture, Veteran Suicide & Endless War
December 2014
- Doing Right by Our Companion Animals
- Following The Thread of History To Find Ourselves
- Paying The Price Of The War On Terror. Also, Talking Climate For Everyone
- Rowing For The Gold Against Hitler & Shakespeare From The Female POV
November 2014
- The True Story of Thanksgiving - Plus, Tips on Eating & Studs Terkel
- Climate Changes Everything
- I Heart Archeologists -- Plus, A Campus Satire
- Is School Reform Failing Our Schools?
- Six Great Books I Have To Read This Week For Writer’s Voice
October 2014
- Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Snowden Interview
- Danielle Allen, OUR DECLARATION & Katy Simpson Smith, THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA
- Mark Schapiro, CARBON SHOCK
- Tana French, THE SECRET PLACE & Shannon Moroney, THROUGH THE GLASS
- Vint Virga, THE SOUL OF ALL LIVING CREATURES & Mike Graf, ADVENTURES WITH THE PARKERS series
- Seth Rosenfeld, SUBVERSIVES & Betty Medsger, THE BURGLARY
September 2014
- Karen Abbott, LIAR, TEMPTRESS, SOLDIER, SPY & Lois Leveen, THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER
- Naomi Oreskes, THE COLLAPSE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION & Dr. James Hansen, STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN
- Paul Ehrlich, HOPE ON EARTH & Ryan Mitchell, TINY HOUSE LIVING
- Thrity Umrigar, THE STORY HOUR & THE WORLD WE FOUND
August 2014
- Kathy Engel reads "Harvesting Strawberries"
- Nell Bernstein, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE & Kathy Engel on poetry for peace
- Martin Blank, OVERPOWERED & Greg Palast, VULTURE’S PICNIC
- Suzanna Danuta Walters, THE TOLERANCE TRAP & Alex Sinha ,“With Liberty To Monitor All”
July 2014
June 2014
- Bob Ivry, THE SEVEN SINS OF WALL STREET & Summer Reading List
- Dr. Sharon Moalem, INHERITANCE & David Shenk, THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US
- Elizabeth Kolbert, THE SIXTH EXTINCTION & Annalee Newitz, SCATTER, ADAPT AND REMEMBER
- Boris Fishman, A REPLACEMENT LIFE & John Cushman, KEYSTONE AND BEYOND
May 2014
- Scott Chaskey, SEEDTIME
- James Romm, DYING EVERY DAY & Robert Knapp, INVISIBLE ROMANS
- Jim Sterba, NATURE WARS
April 2014
- Betty Medsger (THE BURGLARY) on the FBI's Blunder in Camden, NJ
- Betty Medsger, THE BURGLARY & Don Mitchell, FLYING BLIND
- David Bollier, THINK LIKE A COMMONER & Michael Shuman, LOCAL DOLLARS, LOCAL SENSE
- Leah Vincent, CUT ME LOOSE and Amy Dryansky, GRASS WHISTLE
- Amy Dryansky reads from Grass Whistle
- Robert Harris, AN OFFICER & A SPY & Francine Prose, LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB
- John Rennie Short, STRESS TESTING THE USA & John Michael Greer, GREEN WIZARDRY
March 2014
- M.P. Barker, MENDING HORSES & Ellen Bryson THE TRANSFORMATION OF BARTHOLOMEW FORTUNO
- Dr. Brad Spellberg, RISING PLAGUE & Edward McClelland, NOTHIN' BUT BLUE SKIES
- Rob Okun, VOICE: MALE & Honor Moore, POEMS FROM THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
- Dr. Jordan Metzl, THE EXERCISE CURE & Randy Davila, THINK LIKE A PUBLISHER
February 2014
- Judy Foreman, A NATION IN PAIN
- Lauren Coodley, UPTON SINCLAIR & WV Remembers Maxine Kumin
- John Cushman of Inside Climate News: Keystone XL Pipeline
- Ruth Thomas-Suh, REJECT, Herbert Thomas, THE SHAME RESPONSE TO REJECTION & John Cushman on KXL
January 2014
- Ann Patchett, THIS IS THE STORY OF A HAPPY MARRIAGE & Jeanne Ray, CALLING INVISIBLE WOMEN
- Isabel Allende, RIPPER
- Alan Weisman, COUNTDOWN
- John Hunter: WORLD PEACE AND OTHER FOURTH GRADE ACHIEVEMENTS & Heather Rogers, GREEN GONE WRONG
December 2013
- Katherine Bagley, BLOOMBERG'S HIDDEN LEGACY, plus Ten Best Shows of 2013
- Elisa Segrave, THE GIRL FROM STATION X & Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS
- Howard Mansfield, DWELLING IN POSSIBILITY & Rebecca Stefoff, A DIFFERENT MIRROR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
- Kalyanee Mam, A RIVER CHANGES COURSE & Rowen Jacobsen, AMERICAN TERROIR
- Mark Binelli, DETROIT CITY IS THE PLACE TO BE
November 2013
- Jim Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE (encore)
- Jason Mott, THE RETURNED & Christian Parenti (encore), TROPIC OF CHAOS
- David Bollier on The Commons: GREEN GOVERNANCE & VIRAL SPIRAL
- Kevin Baker, THE BIG CROWD; Steve Volk, FRINGEOLOGY (encore); & CAT SENSE reviewed
October 2013
- Russell Banks, A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE FAMILY & George Saunders (encore), TENTH OF DECEMBER
- Rebecca Solnit, THE FARAWAY NEARBY & Martine Bellen, THE WABAC MACHINE
- Martine Bellen, THE WABAC MACHINE: Unabridged Interview
- Carla Kaplan: Miss Ann in Harlem & Rilla Askew, KIND OF KIN
- Emily Brady, HUMBOLDT & Susan Stinson, SPIDER IN A TREE
September 2013
- The River Runs Through Us, Episode Six: Russell Powell, A Sense of Place & Series Highlights
- Russell Steven Powell Reads "Border Crossings"
- Richard Heinberg, SNAKE OIL & Bill McKibben, OIL AND HONEY
- Ivy Pochoda, VISITATION STREET & Sandra Boynton, FROG TROUBLE
August 2013
- Veronica Gonzalez Peña, THE SAD PASSIONS & Carl Safina, GYRE
- Jo Robinson, EATING ON THE WILD SIDE & Wendy Jehanarah Tremain, THE GOOD LIFE LAB
- Margalit Fox, THE RIDDLE OF THE LABYRINTH & Anne C. Heller, AYN RAND
- Dan Fagin, TOM'S RIVER & Ed Brown, UNACCEPTABLE LEVELS
July 2013
- Mike Feder Audio Extra
- Mike Feder, A LONG SWIM UPSTREAM & Helen Thomas WATCHDOGS OF DEMOCRACY?
- Hallie Ephron, THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN & Lionel Shriver, BIG BROTHER
- David McConnell, AMERICAN HONOR KILLINGS & Karen Krett, THE DARK SIDE OF HOPE
June 2013
- Brian Fagan, THE ATTACKING OCEAN & Christine Shearer, KIVALINA
- Episode Five: Andrew Fisk, Connecticut River Watershed Council & Naila Moreira, "Alaska, Massachusetts"
- Ruth Ozeki, A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING & Gretel Ehrlich, FACING THE WAVE
- Barbara Garson, DOWN THE UP ESCALATOR & Tia Lessin, CITIZEN KOCH
May 2013
- INTERNET & PRESS FREEDOM: Rebecca MacKinnon, Tim Karr, Alexander Cockburn
- Marisa Silver, MARY COIN & Jess Walter, WE LIVE IN WATER
- Roberta Olson, AUDUBON'S AVIARY & Chaz Nielsen, HENRY GETS MOVING
- Episode Four of THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH US: The Palimpsest of Time
April 2013
- Amy Larkin, ENVIRONMENTAL DEBT & Katharine Applegate, THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN
- Growing Season: Patricia Klindienst, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME & Rebecca Thistlethwaite, FARMS WITH A FUTURE
- Anthony Lewis, FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT THAT WE HATE & Edward Ball, THE INVENTOR AND THE TYCOON
March 2013
- Lois Leveen, THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER & Eve LaPlante, MARMEE & LOUISA
- Les Leopold, HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR, full interview
- Helaine Olen, POUND FOOLISH & Les Leopold, HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR
- REVIEW: Dan Jones, THE PLANTAGENETS
- Russ Kick, THE GRAPHIC CANON & Louise Erdrich THE ROUND HOUSE (encore)
- Book Review: Ismail Kadare's FALL OF THE STONE CITY
- Stuart Horwitz, BLUEPRINT YOUR BESTSELLER, Rajesh Parameswaren, I AM AN EXECUTIONER: LOVE STORIES and more
February 2013
- New Short Stories by George Saunders & Jennifer Haigh
- Sarah Skinner Kilborne, AMERICAN PHOENIX (extended interview)
- Episode Three, Industry's Rise & Fall - And Renewal?
- Translator Donald O. White, THE ISLAND OF SECOND SIGHT by Thelen & translator Damion Searles, COMEDY IN A MINOR KEY by Keilson.
- James W. Douglass Speaks About The Unspeakable
January 2013
- Jared Diamond, THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY & Holly Bellabuono, THE AUTHENTIC HERBAL HEALER
- Martin Duberman, HOWARD ZINN & Howard Zinn, VOICES OF A PEOPLE'S HISTORY
- Rilla Askew, KIND OF KIN & Rebecca Coleman, HEAVEN SHOULD FALL
- Rilla Askew, KIND OF KIN Excerpt
- Larry A. Fader, 120'0" & Matthew Rose, A BOOK ABOUT DEATH
December 2012
- Ten Best Shows of 2012
- Episode Two: Sojourner Truth, Her Story & Meaning
- Deborah Kesten, Make Weight Loss Last; Story: “The Food Philosophe”; & Jerelle Kraus, All the Art That's Fit to Print.
- Paolo Bacigalupe (encore), Susan Rockefeller, MISSION OF MERMAIDS & Jason Chin, ISLAND
November 2012
- Barbara Kingsolver, FLIGHT BEHAVIOR & James Howard Kunstler TOO MUCH MAGIC
- Simon Kuper, AJAX, THE DUTCH, THE WAR & Mark Hertsgaard, HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth (encore)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, THE UNREAL AND THE REAL & Archer Mayor, PARADISE CITY
- Louise Erdrich, THE ROUND HOUSE & Richard Wolff, OCCUPY THE ECONOMY.
October 2012
- Eric Laursen, THE PEOPLE’S PENSION & Greg Palast, BILLIONAIRES AND BALLOT BANDITS.
- James Steele, THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM: Unabridged Interview
- Michael Grunwald, THE NEW NEW DEAL & James Steele, THE BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.
- Writers Voice Special Series: The River Runs Through Us - Episode One
- Karen Dillon: HOW WILL YOU MEASURE YOUR LIFE? And Bruce Frankel (encore)
September 2012
- Karen Thompson Walker, AGE OF MIRACLES & Kij Johnson, AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER OF BEES
- Junot Diaz, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER & Daniel Lang Levitsky, DREAMING IN PUBLIC
- Richard Selznick, SCHOOL STRUGGLES; Marc Meyer, MINDUP; & Sanjay Nambiar, MAYBE
- Marion Nestle, WHY CALORIES COUNT & Brian Wansink, MINDLESS EATING
- Amanda Coplin, THE ORCHARDIST & Rowan Jacobsen, AMERICAN TERROIR
August 2012
- Linda McCullough Moore, THIS ROAD WILL TAKE US CLOSER TO THE MOON & Marisa Silver, ALONE WITH YOU
- Tracie McMillan, THE AMERICAN WAY OF EATING & Katherine Gustafson, CHANGE COMES TO DINNER
- Brita Belli, THE AUTISM PUZZLE & Nancy Nichols, LAKE EFFECT
- Book Review: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
July 2012
- Richard Zacks, ISLAND OF VICE & Stan Cox, LOSING OUR COOL
- Andrew Nagorski, HITLERLAND & Jonathan Rabb, THE SECOND SON
- Magical Realism: Jacqueline Sheehan, PICTURE THIS & Jeanne Ray, CALLING INVISIBLE WOMEN
June 2012
- Walter Mosely, GIFT OF FIRE/ON THE HEAD OF A PIN & Eric Klinenberg GOING SOLO.
- Steve Volk, FRINGE-OLOGY; Kim Tredick, BrainQuest; Review-Herta Mueller's THE HUNGER ANGEL
- Jonathan Koomey, COLD CASH, COOL CLIMATE & Philip Warburg, HARVEST THE WIND
- Philip Warburg, HARVEST THE WIND
May 2012
- Sadie Jones, THE UNINVITED GUESTS & Sabina Murray, TALES OF THE NEW WORLD
- William deBuys, A GREAT ARIDNESS & Dave Gardner, GROWTHBUSTERS
- Robin Karr-Morse, SCARED SICK & Dan Morhaim, A BETTER END
- Rebecca MacKinnon, CONSENT OF THE NETWORKED & Ross Perlin, INTERN NATION.
April 2012
- Will Potter, GREEN IS THE NEW RED & David Gessner, MY GREEN MANIFESTO
- Ilie Wacs and Deborah Strobin, AN UNCOMMON JOURNEY & Eyal Press, BEAUTIFUL SOULS
- John Elder Robison, BE DIFFERENT & Tony Sorgi, The New Earth Archive
- Tyler Graham, THE HAPPINESS DIET & Julie Guthman, WEIGHING IN
March 2012
- The Art of Songwriting: Cowboy Junkies & Winterpills
- Dystopians and Iconoclasts: J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come and Svetislav Basara’s The Cyclist Conspiracy
- Amy Seidl, FINDING HIGHER GROUND & Matthew Stein, WHEN DISASTER STRIKES
- The Irish in America: Cynthia Neale, NORAH & Kevin O’Hara, A Lucky Irish Lad
- Elmer Luke, MARCH WAS MADE OF YARN; Stephen Pierson & Rich Benjamin, CANTEEN; Marvin Kitman on Rupert Murdoch
February 2012
- Jim Motavalli, HIGH VOLTAGE & James Hoggan, CLIMATE COVER-UP
- Esther Kaplan, WITH GOD ON THEIR SIDE & Dr. Tom Plaut, One Minute Asthma
- Scott Alarik, REVIVAL & Rebecca Coleman, KINGDOM OF CHILDHOOD
- Excerpt: Margot Livesy,The Flight of Gemma Hardy
- Margot Livesy, THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY
- Fiction from Thrity Umrigar & Michael David Lukas & OWS Poetry
January 2012
- Annamarie Pluhar, Sharing Housing & Robin Zasio, The Hoarder in You
- Merle Hoffman, INTIMATE WARS & Wendell Potter, DEADLY SPIN
- MLK Day: Bob Moses & Bruce Watson (R)
- John Michael Greer, APOCALYPSE NOT & Richard Heinberg, THE END OF GROWTH
December 2011
- Top Ten Shows of 2011
- Christian McEwen, WORLD ENOUGH & TIME and A Story for the Winter Solstice
- Songwriters Katryna & Nerissa Nields & David Rovics
- James Workman, HEART OF DRYNESS & Christine Shearer, KIVALINA
November 2011
- Greg Palast, VULTURE'S PICNIC & Marina Sitrin on #OWS
- Christian Parenti, TROPIC OF CANCER & Marge Bruchac, 1621
- Jeff Sharlet, SWEET HEAVEN & Chris Hedges, DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS
- Noah Charney & Eric Lamet
- Bill Zimmerman, TROUBLEMAKER & Alan Michael Collinge, THE STUDENT LOAN SCAM
October 2011
- Gail Levin, John van Sickle & Jeff Sharlet
- Charles Mann, 1493 & Cheri Meiners, Learning To Get Along series
- David S. Reynolds & Charles C. Mann
- Novelists Russell Banks and Valerie Martin & biologist Michael Wojtech
- Valerie Martin Extended Interview
September 2011
- Susan Rosenberg, AMERICAN RADICAL
- Tahmima Anam: The Good Muslim & A Golden Age
- Susan Freinkel, PLASTIC & Dan Ferber CHANGING PLANET, CHANGING HEALTH
- Teju Cole, OPEN CITY & Max Page, THE CITY'S END
- Teju Cole on Art & Photography
- Novelist Cathleen Schine & Climatologist James Hansen
August 2011
- Carl Safina, THE VIEW FROM LAZY POINT
- Agendas for a New Society: David Korten & David Wann
- Jessica Speart, WINGED OBSESSION, Hugh Raffles, INSECTOPEDIA & more
- Green Home: Eric Corey Freed and Barry Katz
July 2011
- DEBT: A Conversation with David Graeber
- Caring for Elders: Susan Jacoby, NEVER SAY DIE & Allan Teel: ALONE & INVISIBLE NO MORE
- Dr. Allan Teel Tells a Story About His Dad
- A Place Called Paradise: Brian Kitely, Marge Bruchac, Kerry Buckley
- Jennifer Haigh, FAITH & Kristen Neff, SELF-COMPASSION
June 2011
- Three Writers on Nature: Elizabeth Tova Bailey, David Gessner & Carl Safina
- The Audacity of Hope or The Mendacity of Hope? Two Views of Obama.
- Susan Cheever: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury
May 2011
- Charles Mann on the Homogenocene and Peter Phillips, Censored 2011
- Ross Perlin, INTERN NATION & Jon Katz of Bedlam Farm
- New Novels from Francine Prose & David Vann
- Kim Barker, THE TALIBAN SHUFFLE.
April 2011
- Caroline Fraser, REWILDING THE WORLD
- Carl Safina, A SEA IN FLAMES
- Mark Hertsgaard & Thomas Yezerski
- Paolo Bacigalupi & Harold Bloom
March 2011
- Harvey Wasserman & Anna Lappé
- Simon Winchester, ATLANTIC & Katharine Weber, TRIANGLE
- T.J. English, THE SAVAGE CITY
- Shelley Carson and Stever Robbins: Being More Creative & Productive
- Shelley Carson on Gifted & Talented Programs
- Poetry From The Right Brain - Jean Valentine
February 2011
- James Kaplan, FRANK: The Voice
- A New American Revolution? Ted Rall, THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO
- Tatjana Soli & David Rabe: Two Novels of Love & War in Vietnam
- Peter Filkins, translator of H.G. Adler: Panorama & The Journey
January 2011
- Helena Norberg Hodge, The Economics of Happiness & Janisse Ray, Track Back
- Gail Hornstein & Millicent Monks: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Jane Brox, BRILLIANT & Jill Bolte Taylor, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
December 2010
- WV Best Ten Shows of 2010
- Martin Keogh: HOPE BENEATH OUR FEET
- Stephanie Syman: Yoga in America & Alexander Cockburn, Tim Karr on WikiLeaks
- Writing Music: Roger Ames & The Yiddish Revival: Aaron Lansky
- Conquering Cyber Overload: William Powers & Joanne Cantor
November 2010
- Marvin Kitman on Murdoch & Peter Lehner on the BP Gulf Disaster
- New Fiction from Scott Spencer & Dori Ostermiller
- Encore Episode: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi & Honor Moore
- David Callahan, David Cay Johnston & Arianna Huffington: Rich liberals, Corporate Politics and Third World America.
October 2010
- James Howard Kunstler & John Michael Greer: The Long Descent In Fact and Fiction
- John Michael Greer on Druidism and The Ecotechnic Future
- Calming the Emotions and the Mind: Judith Siegel & Les Fehmi
- Cuba Present And Past: Patrick Symmes, T.J. English
- Juliet Schor PLENITUDE & Lyle Estill SMALL IS POSSIBLE
September 2010
- Freedom Summer, Bob Moses, and the Fight for First Class Citizenship
- Torry Goldstern's Story from Claus Bock's War Memoir
- Hans Keilson: Comedy in a Minor Key
- Back to School with Ellen Galinsky & Rafe Esquith
August 2010
- Alan Furst: Fiction, Suspense and the Moral Imperative
- How To Find Fulfillment: Bruce Frankel and Susan Whitbourne
- The War Over Climate: Eric Pooley & Eli Kintisch
- Harvey Sachs: Beethoven And His Heroic Era
- James Lee Burke: Murder and Redemption on the Bayou
July 2010
- Philip Schultz, The Poet & His Dyslexia
- The Social Change of Climate Change
- The Secret Arms Trade Between Israel & Apartheid South Africa
- Marisa Silver: Fiction Short and Long
June 2010
- War & Women in Afghanistan
- Web Extra: David Shenk Reads from THE GENIUS IN ALL OF US
- David Shenk on Genius & Genetics and David Chura on Kids in Lockup
- Amanda Little & Anna Lappé on Kicking the Dirty Fuels Habit
- Tales of Secrecy & Obsession
- Roy Morris Jr. on The Making of Mark Twain & Diane Wilson On Pollution in The Gulf
May 2010
- Hampton Sides On the Trail of An Assassin
- Web Extra: Nancy Rappaport on lessening the impact of divorce and custody decisions on children
- Memoirs of Suicide
- Isabel Allende's ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA
- Sadie Jones and Fernanda Eberstadt: Testing the Limits of Courage
- Web Extra: Poet Jon Anderson reads Richard Wilbur's "Hand Dance"
- Web Extra: David Bollier on Brand Name Bullies
April 2010
- The Digital Commons
- Earth Day 2010
- Coal Wars In The Mines and The Streets
- Archived Show: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness
March 2010
- Navigating our Dysfunctional Health Care System
- Is Life Any Better for Women in Afghanistan?
- Memoirs of Ireland
- Web Extra: Poet Marianne Boruch
- Is Marijuana Safer Than Alcohol?
- Web Extra: Mark Lamster
- Masters of Art, Science and Deception
February 2010
- Web Extra: Kim John Payne
- Raising Decent, Secure, and Happy Kids
- Money, Rights and the Value of Nothing
- Web Extra: Dom Sagolla
- Web Extra: Chris Brogan
- Changing The World With Social Media?
- Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
January 2010
- Web Extra: Howard Zinn archive interview
- Web Extra: Robert Parker archive interview
- Wars of Islamic Succession and Partners in Health in Haiti
- Searching for Whitopia
- Can only the super rich save us?
- The Biggest Stories You Never Read in 2009
December 2009
- Best of 2009 and A New Look At Ayn Rand
- Best of 2009
- The Book As Art
- Theater for the People and Recipes for Hard Times and Cooking Healthy
- Adapting to, Controlling and Solving The Climate Crisis
November 2009
- Saved by the Kindness of Strangers
- Web Extra: James Douglass on Lee Harvey Oswald
- Why JFK Died and Why It Matters: Jim Douglass, JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE
- The Will To Resist
- Diaries of Disaster
- What Do We Learn About History From Novels?
- Web Extra: A Dramatic Reading By Enchanted Circle Theater
October 2009
- It's Getting Spooky Out! The Halloween Show
- Dying for the Story and Living Better on Less
- Are You Ready For Fire, Brimstone, Love And Writer's Block?
- What’s An Economy For, Anyway?
- Web Extra: Chris Hedges On Threats and Hope
- Empires of Illusion, Empires of Torture
September 2009
- Meth Epidemic In America's Heartland and Thoreau's Bad Day
- Migraines and Madness: The Upsides and Downsides
- Women Writing Powerfully About Women’s Lives
- Looking at New York City, Before and After 9/11
August 2009
- LIFE, INC. and Washington Sex Scandals, too
- Human Spaces and Liveable Cities
- SO SEXY SO SOON, Jean Kilbourne & HOLD LOVE STRONG, Matthew Aaron Goodman
- Richard Wilbur: Great American Poet
- Food Security and Insecurity
July 2009
- Les Leopold and Barney Frank: Wall Street and THE LOOTING OF AMERICA
- THE BROTHER GARDENERS and OUT OF SIGHT
- Curious Garden & Arecelis Girmay
- Jacqueline Sheehan
- Stephan Faris, FORECAST & Leonard Nimoy
June 2009
- Welsh Poet Gwyneth Lewis and Marshall Jon Fisher’s A TERRIBLE SPLENDOR
- Freedom and Democracy
- Poet Paul Muldoon and drama Voices in Conflict
- Birdsong by the Seasons and more
May 2009
- Sustainable Gardening
- Web Extra: Jeff Sharet Extended Interview
- Gail Hornstein, AGNES' JACKET
- College Rip-Off
- Pandemic Flu, Thrity Umrigar, and Jeff Sharlet
April 2009
- Natalie Goldberg and Ann Armbrecht
- Amy Seidl and Nikki Giovanni
- David Grann's Lost City of Z and David Cay Johnston's "Fiscal Therapy"
- Balancing the Brain
- CONSUMING KIDS and GAVIOTAS
March 2009
- Snark and Civility
- St. Patrick's Day with Alphie McCourt, and more.
- Molly Haskell, Frankly My Dear and more
- Surviving the Long Emergency
February 2009
- Verghese, CUTTING FOR STONE and Weil, Healthy Aging
- LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE and MINDFULLY GREEN
- Slow Money/Fast Money...and Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast
- David S. Reynolds, WAKING GIANT and Wally Swist, MOUNT TOBY POEMS
January 2009
- Family Secrets: Ben Binstock and Hallie Ephron
- Swerling's CITY OF GOD and Michelson's AS GOOD AS ANYBODY
- Tyler Boudreau, PACKING INFERNO
- Best of 2008
December 2008
- THE JAZZ IDIOM and THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR
- Paul Roberts THE END OF FOOD, MP Barker’s A DIFFICULT BOY and poet Annie Boutelle
- Paul Fisher's HOUSE OF WITS and Shakespeare Fans in the Inner City
- H.G. Adler's THE JOURNEY, Eating Tips for the Holidays, and a Thanksgiving story
November 2008
- Food for Health
- Joan Wickersham, THE SUICIDE INDEX and Jennet Conant, THE IRREGULARS
- Peter Manseau, SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER and E.H. Winthrop, DECEMBER
- Alan Kronzek, SORCERER'S COMPANION and Studs Terkel Remembered
October 2008
- Terry Tempest Williams, MOSAIC
- Web Extra: Williams reads from Finding Beauty in a Broken World
- Comix as Art and Politics: Art Spiegelman and Greg Palast
- DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEFT
- Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
- Web Extra: Elizabeth Winthrop's Discovery of Addie Card
September 2008
- David Cay Johnston, FREE LUNCH
- T.J. English, HAVANA NOCTURNE and Marisa Silver, GOD OF WAR
- Toxic Cosmetics
- Toxic Legacies
August 2008
- David Lovelace, SCATTERSHOT and Maggie Jackson, DISTRACTED
- The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
- New Fiction from Paul Auster and Jennifer Haigh; Michael Klare on Russia-Georgia War
- John Kessel, BAUM PLAN FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
- Climate Change, Past, Present and Future
July 2008
- Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight
- Wind Energy Island, Milk-N-Honey, and Families of the Vine
- Melody Petersen
- New Fiction from Margot Livesy and Ellen Cooney
June 2008
- Margot Livesey, HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE
- Poet Frannie Lindsey, LAMB
- Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment
May 2008
- Louise Erdrich's THE PLAGUE OF DOVES and more...
- THE HAKAWATI and SO WRONG FOR SO LONG
- OLIVE KITTREDGE and THE END OF THE JEWS
- Web Extra: Elizabeth Strout reads from OLIVE KITTREDGE
- Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. Bush's Law.
April 2008
- Nicholson Baker's HUMAN SMOKE and more...
- Mark Eleveld, The Spoken Word Revolution Redux
- Connie Hale of the Nieman Center
- AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON and AGAINST THE MACHINE
- Philip Fradkin and Rutherford Platt
March 2008
- Poetry Speaks Expanded and Beyond Genocide
- Greg Palast on Spitzer and the Bank Bailout; also, Field Report on Narrative Journalism
- The Open-Focus Brain and Surviving Depression
- Eric Weitz's WEIMAR GERMANY
- Life With Asperger's
February 2008
- John Elder Robison talks about life with Asperger's
- Black History Month Special
- Kevin Patterson and John Hanson Mitchell
- Novelist Geraldine Brooks and Poet Laureate Al Young
- Book Excerpt: Normon Solomon, MADE LOVE, GOT WAR
- Russell Banks and Tahmima Anam
January 2008
- How Everyday Products Make Us Sick
- Web Extra: Devra Davis on Aspartame and Ritalin
- EVERY PAST THING and AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY
- EVERY PAST THING, by Pamela Thompson
- Norman Solomon and Valerie Martin
- DEEP WATER and DAM NATION
December 2007
- Secret Life of Houdini. And New Year's in Provence
- Frances Moore Lappe on GETTING A GRIP and more...
- Les Leopold and Richard Michelson
- George Monbiot on HEAT: How to Stop the Planet from Burning
- Dennis Lehane, CORONADO and Julia Glass, THE WHOLE WORLD OVER
November 2007
- Xiaoulu Guo, CONCISE ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS and more...
- Dahr Jamail, BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE
- Jewish Book Fair Authors
- Writer's Voice Listener Web Quiz
- Alan Weisman & Katharine Weber
October 2007
- Leonard Nimoy's THE FULL BODY PROJECT
- Francisco Goldman and Lynn Thompson
- Dr. Bruce Levine and George Monbiot
- The Annual WMUA Fund Drive: Great Books as Premiums!
- Wrestling With Angels, Clayton
September 2007
- How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
- Should Water Be a Private or Public Resource?
- Focus on Global Warming
- Junot Diaz, BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO and Laraine Herring on writing
- Paul Hawken, BLESSED UNREST
August 2007
- TAJ MAHAL and some final Indian Tales
- ETHICAL MARKETS and more INDIAN TALES
- IAMBICS OF NEWFOUNDLAND and more INDIAN TALES
July 2007
- LIQUID JADE: The Story of Tea From East to West.
- The Most Famous Man In America
- AMERICAN FURIES and YURTS
- Medical Alternatives
June 2007
- Jacqueline Sheehan and Sophie Freud
- Special on Human Trafficking
- Patricia Klindienst, THE EARTH KNOWS MY NAME
- Steve Hendricks, THE UNQUIET GRAVE and Performance Artist D'Lo
May 2007
- Leslie Cerier and Jim Armenti
- Rasberry Almond Smoothie from GOING WILD IN THE KITCHEN
- Teff Pancakes Recipe from GOING WILD IN THE KITCHEN
- Bill McKibben and David Gessner
- David Sirota, HOSTILE TAKEOVER and Michelle Goldberg, KINGDOM COMING
- John Nichols, GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT and Bill MacLeish
- LIGHT WITHIN THE LIGHT, Jeanne Braham and Barry Moser
April 2007
- SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION; also, Anita Shreve
- Eesha Williams and Sefi Atta
- Jeremy Scahill and Giuliana Sgrena
- Ian Buruma and Andy Stern
- Writers on A Sense of Place, Part Two
March 2007
- Writers on A Sense of Place, Part One
- Eric Klinenberg, FIGHTING FOR AIR
- American Bloomsbury and the Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
- St. Patrick's Day/Spring Special
- Michael Downing, SPRING FORWARD
- Marge Piercy, SEX WARS
February 2007
- Dr. David Elkind and memoirist Patty Dann
- KABUL IN WINTER; FINE PRINT OF SELF-PUBLISHING
- Web Extra: John Dickerson on The White House Press
- John Dickerson; Linda Cardillo
- The Knitting Circle, Media Reform
January 2007
- Mary Cowhey & Enchanted Circle Theater
- Simon Winchester and Dylan Schaffer
- Richard Ford and Scott Ritter
- Part Two: Scott Ritter
- Podcast of NEA Chairman Dana Gioia
- Eve Ensler: Insecure At Last
- Peter Barnes: Capitalism 3.0
December 2006
- Studs Terkel and more
- Richard Michelson & Maxine Kumin
- Rob Walch, TRICKS OF THE PODCASTING MASTERS
- Peter Bowerman, THE WELL-FED SELF PUBLISHER
- Rob Walch web exclusive
- Writer's Voice Host Wins Prestigious Journalism Award
November 2006
October 2006
- Call for Independent Exit Polling
- The Vote Count Protection Project
- Writer's Voice: October 6, 2006
- Web Extra: 9-11 Press for Truth video
- Tips and Links on Writing Memoir