During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, England and the Ottoman Empire got along splendidly. Lewis Lapham talks with historian James Mather about a time when British foreign relations were more peaceful and diplomatic than they later became.
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times. More
Discovering communities of microbes that exist within us. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “the American Dream”. More
The latest episode of our podcast. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Kory Stamper, lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the coauthor of The Dawn of Everything. More
