Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 3, 2017. Arundhati Roy is an Indian author, actor, and political activist. She is well-known for her book The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and for her outspoken advocacy of environmental and human rights causes, which […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 10, 2017. Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, making him the first Jamaican writer to receive the UK’s most prestigious literary award. The book presents an untold history of Jamaica […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 29, 2017. Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s debut novel is The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a spy novel set during and just after the war in Vietnam, told in the form of a forced confession by a spy […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 8, 2017. Terry Tempest Williams is an award-winning author, environmentalist, and activist who writes about the intersection of environmental and social justice. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she is known for her impassioned and lyrical prose. She is the […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 15, 2017. Eileen Myles is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Snowflake/different streets, Sorry, Tree, Chelsea Girls, Not Me, Skies, Cool for You, The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art, and Inferno: A […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 18, 2017. China Miéville is a British American writer whose fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Ursula Le Guin, and Philip K. Dick. He is a three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for The City & […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 7, 2016. Andrew Bacevich is a retired professor of history and international relations at Boston University. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy and received his PhD in American diplomatic history from Princeton University. He served as a commissioned officer in […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 5, 2016. Gideon Levy, who was born and resides in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a columnist and member of the editorial board at Haaretz daily newspaper, where he has covered the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza for the last 25 […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 21, 2016. Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan-born writer and activist whose creative and political writing has appeared internationally. She is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), a New York […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 6, 2016. Juan Cole is a Middle East scholar, distinguished academic, and commentator who has, for three and a half decades, sought to put the complex relationship between the West and the Muslim world in historical context. He has written extensively on modern […]