Posts by Aidan Flax-Clark

Award-winning journalist delivered this year's annual Robert B. Silvers lecture, “Among the Drug Dealers, Criminals, Rapists: A Reporting Life in Latin America.”

The debut novelist talks about Liberian history, storytelling, and her book "She Would Be King" with Buzzfeed's Isaac Fitzgerald.

The master of creative non-fiction writing shares his latest work and discusses the arc of his life and career with Paul Holdengräber.

Comedian Wyatt Cenac moderated a conversation with Washington insiders and journalists from ProPublica and The Washington Post.

Did you know that when James Baldwin was writing "If Beale Street Could Talk" he was also writing a children's book?

Thirty years after a fire destroyed 400,000 books at the Los Angeles Public Library, journalist Susan Orlean re-examines the tragedy in "The Library Book."

Dr. Carol Anderson is a historian and educator, and the author of "One Person, No Vote," a timely survey of how voting rights in this country have been rolled back, particularly for people of color, in the years since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling in Shelby v Holder.

The bestselling author of "The Essex Serpent," Sarah Perry discusses her latest novel, "Melmouth."

Organizers, writers, and friends Darnell L. Moore and Charlene Carruthers share their recent work and discuss inclusivity within movements for Black lives.

Reflections on masculinity, violence, and boxing from the first trans man to box in Madison Square Garden.

The journalist's new book traces the history of women's anger in America from the suffrage movement to #MeToo.

"New Yorker" critic Hilton Als, and "Paper" magazine co-founder, Kim Hastreiter discuss the untold story of the New York photography legend.

Journalist Anand Giridharadas asks whether the rich and powerful who have most benefitted from “our highly inequitable status quo” are in fact the best candidates to change it.

An interview with author Sarah Weinman about the kidnapping of Sally Horner and Nabokov's novel that scandalized the world.

The well-read fashion icon discusses some of his all-time favorite books with novelist Min Jin Lee.

Making Gay History creator Eric Marcus interviews Robert Fieseler about his new book, "Tinderbox."

Exciting news! Starting next episode, "The New York Public Library Podcast" will be renamed "Library Talks."

Why do we remember the past but not the future? Where do we locate the present? Is there such a thing as now? Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli discusses the true nature of time.

Journalist Åsne Seierstad's latest book follows two teenage girls on their journey from Norway into Syria and jihad and their father's struggle to bring them home.