Talking to author John Glassie about his book A Man of Misconceptions, which chronicles the odd pursuits of 17th-century scientist and nutball Athanasius Kircher, the misguided decoder of hieroglyphs and the failed inventor of such devices as the sunflower clock.
“Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present.” More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. More
