Lewis Lapham and Dick Cavett talk about Cavett’s life and television career, the lessons in humor they learned from Mark Twain and Groucho Marx, and that time they both tried out for a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby while attending Yale in the 1950s. Listen to find out who got the part.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Catherine Nixey, author of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Miles Unger about the Florentine father of modern political science. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Amanda Foreman about Britain’s role in the American Civil War. More
