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 Lapham talks with historian Richard White about the failures of the companies behind a major alteration of the American West. More
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Lewis H. Lapham talks with Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. More
