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 speaks with the author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian James Mather about a time when British foreign relations were more peaceful and diplomatic than they later became. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Mark Kurlansky, author of Paper: Paging Through History. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University. More
