The World in Time

Stories and insight from today’s leading writers and thinkers

June 5, 2020

August 16, 2019

The World in Time:

Ziya Tong

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World. More

June 28, 2019

The World in Time:

Rick Atkinson

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. More

June 14, 2019

The World in Time:

David Wallace-Wells

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. More

May 31, 2019

The World in Time:

Brenda Wineapple

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. More

May 17, 2019

The World in Time:

Nigel Hamilton

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945. More

May 03, 2019

The World in Time:

Greg Grandin

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. More

April 19, 2019

The World in Time:

Andrew S. Curran

Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. More

April 05, 2019

The World in Time:

Philipp Blom

Lewis H. Lapham talks with Philipp Blom, author of Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present. More

LQ Podcast

LQ Podcast

Robert Weide

September 17, 2014

Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer and documentary filmmaker Robert B. Weide has profiled the biggest names in comedy. More

LQ Podcast

Soviets & Spies

April 30, 2014

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