The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian speaks with Lewis Lapham about her latest book, The Bully Pulpit. More
LQ Podcast
Stories and insight from today's leading writers and thinkers
March 16, 2025
March 16, 2025
Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer and documentary filmmaker Robert B. Weide has profiled the biggest names in comedy. More
Did an Englishman assist in the murder of Rasputin? Did a man knowns as the “Ace of Spies” almost carry off the assassination of the entire Bolshevik power structure? More
“In all revolutions there comes a moment when the high ideals of the revolutionaries crash onto the hard rocks of reality.” More
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. More
Lewis Lapham and Dick Cavett talk about Cavett's life and television career. More
Brothers David and Joe Henry talk about their new biography of Richard Pryor, Furious Cool. More
How did Pakistan’s free elections in 1970 lead to a genocidal military crackdown against East Pakistan in 1971? More
The Morgan Library exhibit Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul reveals a complex, nuanced biography of the American author. More
The World in Time
August 18, 2023
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More
The World in Time
July 28, 2023
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies. More
The World in Time
March 24, 2023
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. More