All Of It with Alison Stewart

Some of the best books from 2021 were works of translated literature, whether it was the memoir The Copenhagen Trilogy or Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest. And there are lots of exciting translated works coming up 2022. Corinne Segal, a senior editor at Literary Hub and a big fan of translated literature, joins us for a Review/Preview to recommend the best of 2021 and upcoming translated books.Corinne's Picks: Published in 2021The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency, Tove Ditlevsen (tr. from Danish by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman)An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector (tr. from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler) Slipping, Mohamed Kheir (tr. from Arabic by Robin Moger) Cowboy Graves, Roberto Bolaño (tr. from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer) Imminence, Mariana Dimópulos (tr. from Spanish by Alice Whitmore) The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, Mariana Enriquez (tr. from Spanish by Megan McDowell) In the Eye of the Wild, Nastassja Martin (tr. from French by Sophie R. Lewis) When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (tr. from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West)Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri (tr. from Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri)Upcoming in 2022The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk (tr. from Polish by Jennifer Croft) The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century, Olga Ravn (tr. from Danish by Martin Aitken) All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami (tr. from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd) Portrait of an Unknown Lady, María Gainza (tr. from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead) A Very Old Man: Stories, Italo Svevo (tr. from Italian by Frederika Randall)Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra (tr. from Spanish by Megan McDowell) Yoga, Emmanuel Carrère (tr. from French by John Lambert)

Today is the birthday of a man who gave our city one of its finest institutions: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. His life's work led to the creation of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. In order to learn more about the man behind the National Landmark, we are joined by Interim Dean at Macaulay Honors College Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés, author of Diasporic Blackness: the Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

Keb' Mo' released a breakthrough album in 1994, often called his debut, though he'd been recording and releasing music for decades beforehand. In late 2021, he received the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance. Now he's out with a new album titled Good To Be, written between Nashville and his childhood home of Compton, California. Mo' joins us for a release day Listening Party.

Why are big name artists such as John Legend, Bruce Springsteen and Shakira cashing in on their catalogs? Variety senior music editor Jem Aswad breaks down this trend and its implications for the music industry.

Ludovico Einaudi's music draws on many different influences and has at times alienated classical critics, but it has earned him many more fans and made him one of the most-streamed classical musicians in the world. He has also composed scores for films including "Nomadland" and "The Father." His new album is a minimalist collection of piano compositions titled Underwater. Einaudi joins us for a release day Listening Party.

This year's New York Jewish Film Festival, which is presented by The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center, started on January 12, and is running through January 25. To help us preview the final weekend of the 31st edition of the festival, and recap what has screened so far, we are joined by Aviva Weintraub, director of the NYJFF.

[REBROADCAST FROM December 8, 2021] The Stephen Sondheim musical “Assassins,” about those who have attempted to assassinate American presidents, feels incredibly of-the-moment, even though it premiered in 1990. The 2021 revival was delayed due to COVID, but is now running at the Classic Stage Company. Director John Doyle, no stranger to Sondheim’s work, joins us to discuss the show. He will be joined by actor Steven Pasquale, who plays John Wilkes Booth.

“Assassins” is running at Classic Stage Company through January 29.

The new Broadway revival of the 1970 Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Tony Award-winning musical "Company" switches the gender of many of the characters, including main character Bobbie, played by Tony Award-winner Katrina Lenk, and her best friend Jamie, now a gay man played by Matt Doyle. Lenk and Doyle join us to discuss the revival, which tells the story of a single woman turning 35, and contemplating whether it's time to get married.

"Company" is running now at the Bernard Jacobs Theater.

Frida is a dedicated mother who had one very, very bad day. And that one day leads to the removal of her child and Frida's induction into a new government reform program for "bad mothers." This is the plot of a new debut novel from Jessamine Chan, titled The School for Good Mothers. We speak with Chan as part of our new series highlighting first-time authors, '2022 Debuts.'

Karen Brooks Hopkins joined the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1979 and became its president in 1999, until 2015. She reflects on her tenure in the memoir BAM. . . and Then It Hit Me. Hopkins joins us to discuss the institutions and her career.