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, reading some of his prose miniatures and speaking with translators Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto about their new book, I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary: the notebooks, diaries, and letters of Daniil Kharms.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The People, No. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Steve Fraser, author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History. More
