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 talks with Adrian Goldsworthy, author of Pax Romana: War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World. More
Discovering communities of microbes that exist within us. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Victor Sebestyen, author of Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. More
Lewis Lapham speaks with Elizabeth Abbott, author of Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the coauthor of The Dawn of Everything. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850. More
