LQ  Podcast

Stories and insight from today's leading writers and thinkers

April 20, 2024

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December 02, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian speaks with Lewis Lapham about her latest book, The Bully Pulpit. More

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September 17, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Robert Weide

Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer and documentary filmmaker Robert B. Weide has profiled the biggest names in comedy. More

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April 30, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Soviets & Spies

Did an Englishman assist in the murder of Rasputin? Did a man knowns as the “Ace of Spies” almost carry off the assassination of the entire Bolshevik power structure? More

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April 27, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Orlando Figes

“In all revolutions there comes a moment when the high ideals of the revolutionaries crash onto the hard rocks of reality.”  More

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Daniil Kharms

March 05, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Daniil Kharms

Plummeting old women, masturbation obsessions, false mustaches, and NKVD arrests for subversive children’s literature. Aidan Flax-Clark explores the life of Russian surrealist Daniil Kharms. More

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January 21, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Dick Cavett

Lewis Lapham and Dick Cavett talk about Cavett's life and television career.  More

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January 03, 2014

LQ Podcast:

Richard Pryor

Brothers David and Joe Henry talk about their new biography of Richard Pryor, Furious Cool. More

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December 04, 2013

LQ Podcast:

The Blood Telegram

How did Pakistan’s free elections in 1970 lead to a genocidal military crackdown against East Pakistan in 1971? More

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November 20, 2013

LQ Podcast:

Poe’s Terror of the Soul

The Morgan Library exhibit Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul reveals a complex, nuanced biography of the American author.  More