All Of It with Alison Stewart

Headlines about "book bans" have become more and more commonplace over the past months and years, targeting mainly works by Black and Queer authors, which they consider not to be "age appropriate" reading material for youths. Emily Drabinski, president-elect of the American Library Association for 2023-24, joins to discuss.

A new film explores the lengths a mother will go to in order to protect her son, even in the wake of disturbing allegations. Emily Watson stars as Aileen, a woman from a small Irish fishing village thrilled when her son (Paul Mescal) returns. But when a woman in town accuses her son of sexual assault, Aileen is faced with some difficult choices. "God's Creatures" was directed by Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, who join us to discuss, alongside Emily Watson. The film premieres in select theaters and on demand on September 30.

Nigella Lawson will be in conversation with Ina Garten at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on November 9. In advance, she's checking in with All Of It listeners to talk about food, her latest projects, and take your calls.

Host Lulu Miller and producer and "songbud" Alan Goffinski, join to talk about Terrestrials, a new podcast from Radiolab for Kids. The podcast is for people of all ages and explores the strangeness that exists right here on Earth. Each episode examines a creature or phenomenon.

YouTube is a vital online platform and a huge player in the attention economy. But it wasn't always a billion-dollar platform for daily vloggers, podcasters, gamers, and more. It used to be a place where you could watch fun viral videos, like "Double Rainbow," "Annoying Orange," or "Gangnam Style." Now, everything on YouTube seems to have gotten out of control. Mark Bergen, technology reporter at Bloomberg, recently wrote a book called, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination, and he joins us to discuss YouTube's relationship with Google, the behind-the-scenes of how it became so popular, and how YouTube has affected how we use the internet today.

The nominations for the 23rd annual Latin Grammy Awards are in and Puerto Rican reggaetonero Bad Bunny is in the lead with ten nods. Reggaetón historian Katelina Eccleston joins us to discuss the 2022 Latin Grammy nods.

Today is the last full day of summer. It was a summer of consequential news around the world, from the overturning of Roe v. Wade, to Elon Musk's attempted Twitter takeover, to notable pop culture moments, like Beyoncé's Renaissance album. Alongside All Of It senior producer Kate Hinds, we will reflect on the stories of the summer and what it could all mean for the future, and take your calls. 

As local officials look to institute more permanent regulations for outdoor dining, we look back at the rise of the dining shed across NYC's restaurants. New York Times writer Dodai Stewart recently published the piece "The Final Days of New York’s ‘Wild West’ Outdoor Dining Scene." She joins us for this conversation. We also take your calls.

Many of the year's most hotly anticipated movies have premiered in Venice and Toronto, setting the stage for an interesting awards season packed with star performances and fascinating new films. New York Times awards season columnist and friend of the show Kyle Buchanan joins us to give his opinions on the movies you should be looking forward to this fall. Plus, we take calls from listeners.

Agatha Christie was the queen of mystery writers, so it's fitting that her own life was full of secrets and puzzles, including one mysterious disappearance. Historian Lucy Worsley joins us to discuss her new biography, Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, which explores her extremely modern mindset, her strange insistence that she was an ordinary housewife, and her struggles with mental illness.