Library Talks: Eliza Griswold, Hahrie Han with Andrea Elliott: 'Circle of Hope' and 'Undivided'
Release Date: 10/08/2024
Timothy Snyder: The New Paganism—A Framework for Understanding Our Politics
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American historian Timothy Snyder presents his lecture The New Paganism—A Framework for Understanding Our Politics
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Alissa Wilkinson with Aidan Flax-Clark: We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
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Film critic Alissa Wilkinson talks to Aidan Flax-Clark about her latest book, We Tell Ourselves Stories.
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Edna Bonhomme with Linda Villarosa: A History of the World in Six Plagues
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Historian Edna Bonhomme talks to Linda Villarosa about her latest book, A History of the World in Six Plagues.
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Hamid Rahmanian with Ahmad Sadri and Melissa Hibbard: Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
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Artist Hamid Rahmanian speaks with translator Ahmad Sadri and producer Melissa Hibbard about the Persian epic poem Shahnameh.
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Lisa Kyung Gross with Yael Raviv and Abi Balingit: The League of Kitchens Cookbook
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Cookbook Author Lisa Kyung Gross is joined by Yael Raviv and Abi Balingit to talk about her latest book, The League of Kitchens Cookbook
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Kenneth Roth with M. Gessen: Righting Wrongs
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Kenneth Roth, the long-time head of Human Rights Watch, talks to M. Gessen about his first book, Righting Wrongs.
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Eliza Clark with Allison Nellis: She's Always Hungry
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Eliza Clark talks to Allison Nellis about her debut short story collection, She's Always Hungry.
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Sarah Lewis with Nell Irvin Painter: The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
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Historian Sarah Lewis talks to Nell Irvin Painter about her latest book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America.
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Victoria Christopher Murray with Melissa Noel: Harlem Rhapsody
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Bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray sits down with journalist Melissa Noel to discuss her latest book, Harlem Rhapsody: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Ignited the Harlem Renaissance.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan with Roxane Gay: Cleavage
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In 2003, author Jennifer Finney Boylan published She’s Not There, which became the first bestselling work by a transgender American and established Boylan as a go-to source for public conversation about the impact of gender on our lives. More than two decades later, her new memoir, Cleavage, returns with older and wiser eyes to examine the joys and the struggles of being transgender. In this episode of Library Talks, Boylan sits down with bestselling author Roxanne Gay to discuss her latest memoir and her hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women,...
info_outlineNot all evangelical churches fit the stereotypes. In their latest books, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eliza Griswold and the Inaugural Director of the SNF Agora Institute, Hahrie Han, bear witness to two churches who break the mold. In Circle of Hope, Griswold chronicles the ravaging and ultimately destructive results to a group of progressive-leaning Philadelphia evangelicals who attempt a racial reckoning. In Undivided, Han follows four members of a conservative Midwest church whose lives are radically altered for the better by a six-week program designed to tackle racial injustice among their ranks.
Griswold and Han discuss their books with journalist Andrea Elliott and examine how their stories shed light on the complexity of contemporary American evangelism.