Brothers David and Joe Henry talk about their new biography of Richard Pryor, Furious Cool, about the genius of his comedy and the mythic, tortured, tragic life behind it.
Brothers David and Joe Henry talk about their new biography of Richard Pryor, Furious Cool, about the genius of his comedy and the mythic, tortured, tragic life behind it.
Lewis Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Eric Foner, author of Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Gordon S. Wood, author of Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. More