Are you ready to read or watch content about the pandemic? Plus, we take a look at equal pay in soccer and beyond.

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We dig into Gwen E. Kirby's 'S*** Cassandra Saw' with Glory Edim of Well Read Black Girl and Jess Zimmerman, author of 'Women and Other Monsters.'

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Today Explained podcast hosts Noel King and Sean Rameswaram round up the news of the week with us. Then, we talk to one of the showrunners behind the bear hug of a show Somebody Somewhere from HBO. Plus, did you know that you could binge watch Netflix for a living?

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We talk about the Olympics and the Oscars with the hosts of Slate’s ICYMI podcast, Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher. Plus, two delightful interviews with the singer Shamir and the board game designer Elizabeth Hargrave.

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Did Wordle sell out? And what’s going on with banned books? We get into it. Plus, three delightful knitting designers tell us about their craft.

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We talk to Gwen E. Kirby about her debut short story collection.

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“For Colored Nerds” hosts Eric Eddings and Brittany Luse discuss some weird and wonderful things from the week.

Book Riot’s Liberty Hardy shares some of the best books coming out in the early months of 2022. Her list includes…

“Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?” by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (1/18)

“Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow” (4/5)

“Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel (4/5)

“Unlikely Animals” by Annie Hartnett (4/12)

“Nettle & Bone” by T. Kingfisher (4/26)

And WHAT IS TIME?! We ask Chad Orzel, physicist and author of the new book “A Brief History of Timekeeping.”

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Authors Adriana Herrera and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney join us to unpack the twists and turns of Xochitl Gonzalez’s dazzling debut novel.

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This week, we pay tribute to the late fashion icon André Leon Talley, discuss a troublesome murder of crows and dive into the new book How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu. Plus, we talk to a conservation biologist with a delicious solution to the issue of invasive species.

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Nerdette’s "resident epidemiologist" Dr. Emily Landon is back to cut through the noise and help us navigate the pandemic now.

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