Lannan Foundation

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 1, 2017. Óscar Martínez is an award-winning Salvadoran investigative journalist and co-founder of elfaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America providing in-depth coverage of migration, violence and organized crime in Central America. Martínez has received numerous awards for his journalism. In 2008, […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 11, 2017. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades, working with Indigenous communities on sovereignty and land rights and helping to […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 27, 2017. Glenn Greenwald is an investigative journalist and author. A former constitutional lawyer, he founded the online global media outlet The Intercept with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill in 2014. He is the author of several best sellers, among them, How Would […]

Recorded at the Lannan Garden Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 13, 2017. Wallace Shawn, playwright, actor, screenwriter, and essayist has said, “I don’t know about you, but I only have one life, and I don’t want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.” Best known for his roles in My Dinner with […]

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 & […]