Required Reading from Liberties

By Liberties Journal

On Required Reading we talk with writers and readers about the texts — old and new — that influence or express their worldview.... more

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The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.

Required Reading from Liberties episodes:

August 14, 2026 Arash Azizi on Iranian patriotism and nationalism on the left
Arash Azizi joins Morten Høi Jensen about his recent Liberties essay "Irandoost, or Confessions of a Patriot"
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40min
July 06, 2026 David A. Bell on the book review's past, present, and uncertain future
David A. Bell joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his essay from Liberties' spring issue "The Life and Death of the Book Review."
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36min
June 22, 2026 A.E. Stallings on writing poetry
A.E. Stallings discusses her recent essay "How Poems Happen (For Me)" with Morten Høi Jensen.
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38min
April 14, 2026 Abbas Milani on Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma
Abbas Milani and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Milani's recent Liberties essay "Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma"
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35min
March 31, 2026 Yahia Lababidi - Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton; Secretaries of Silence
Yahia Lababidi discusses his recent essay "Secretaries of Silence" with Morten Høi Jensen. The essay is about the relationship between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton.
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34min
March 06, 2026 James Wolcott - Gloire Days
James Wolcott and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wolcott's essay "Gloire Days" and Trump's obsession with Mar-a-Lago.
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25min
February 09, 2026 Dan Sinykin - Close Reading
Dan Sinykin and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Close Reading For The Twentieth Century, the book that Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winnant edited and which was published recently by Princeton University Press.
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36min
January 27, 2026 Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus -- Mann and Soutine
Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus discuss their respective books The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain and Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art.
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45min
January 05, 2026 Lance Richardson - Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen,
On this episode of Required Reading, Morten Høi Jensen and Lance Richardson discuss Richardson’s new biography Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, exploring the author’s environmentalism, his time working for the CIA, and his fascination with the Bigfoot Legend."
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40min
November 11, 2025 Aatish Taseer - Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
On November 7th, 2019, the Indian government revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship. In this episode of Required Reading, MORTEN HØI JENSEN and AATISH TASEER discuss Taseer’s recent book Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, a memoir about processing that violent ejection and grappling with the shards of self which remain after statehood.
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36min

FAQs about Required Reading from Liberties:

How many episodes does Required Reading from Liberties have?

The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.