With her debut collection, Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola shimmers sometimes, too “When two or more margins meet at an edge, they create a jagged funeral.” But at those edges there is also joy, electricity, magic. Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Play AudioListen 21 mins
Speakers forum: Black voices, origins, and futures “Part oral history, part poetry, all imagination.” John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
The real deep state issue, according to Ezra Klein ‘It’s working exactly as designed’ John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
American Oligarchs: Inside the Trump, Kushner family histories Andrea Bernstein’s saga of ‘relentless corruption’ John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
Of republics and refugees: a conversation with author Isabel Allende Imagine yourself forced to make a tough decision: to flee the only country you've ever known, leaving almost everything behind. Novelist Isabel Allende has had to make that choice more than once. Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong Play AudioListen 22 mins
What is the point of an oath? Civic engagement: A responsibility of citizenship John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
Go west, young man, after you elope with the Senator’s daughter Steve Inskeep explores the life and times of Jessie and John Frémont John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
Author tackles workplace sexism women face: ‘You belong at the table’ Mikaela Kiner discusses responding to bias and being an advocate for women in the work setting. John O'Brien Play AudioListen 36 mins
One last holiday hit before the new year arrives Brad Craft reads Truman Capote’s ‘A Christmas Memory’ John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
Nancy Pearl's best books of the 2010s We never quite figured out what to call this decade: the teens? The tens? In any event, it's ending tomorrow and to send it off in style, we're sharing the decade's best books with you. Marcie Sillman
