Posts by Aidan Flax-Clark

Civil Rights leader and legendary athlete, Dr. John Carlos spoke with Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation and co-author of Carlos's memoir. Dr. Carlos shares his story of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the hardships he faced after the '68 Olympics, and the message he has for athletes continuing the movement for racial justice today.

Akwaeke Emezi discusses her debut novel, Freshwater, with Glory Edim, founder of the book club and digital platform Well-Read Black Girl.

Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt shares the posthumous true-crime masterpiece written by his wife Michelle McNamara, who died suddenly at the age of 46 in 2016. McNamara, a true-crime reporter and creator of TrueCrimeDiary.com, spent years tracking the serial killer she dubbed the Golden State Killer.

Legendary whistle-blower, Daniel Ellsberg, discusses the military-industrial complex and the secrets he's been keeping for decades about the U.S. nuclear war program.

A conversation with the author about migration, home and his new novel "A State of Freedom."

The New York Public Library Podcast features your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers in smart talks and provocative conversations. Listen to some of our most engaging programs, discover new ideas, and celebrate the best of today’s culture.

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The New York Public Library Podcast features your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers in smart talks and provocative conversations. Listen to some of our most engaging programs, discover new ideas, and celebrate the best of today’s culture.

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Google 

Historian and political commentator Niall Ferguson discusses his newest book with Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times.

The New York Public Library Podcast features your favorite writers, artists, and thinkers in smart talks and provocative conversations. Listen to some of our most engaging programs, discover new ideas, and celebrate the best of today’s culture.

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The James Beard Award–winning food historian and cookbook writer was at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture this past fall to talk about her memoir, My Soul Looks Back, with chef and co-host of ABC's The Chew, Carla Hall.

Listen to a conversation about climate change and the Arctic between Canadian journalist and best-selling author Naomi Klein and Danish journalist Martin Breum.

The journalist and National Book Award winner delivers in the annual Robert B. Silvers lecture an unexpectedly intimate account of her own biography, exploring themes of immigration, identity, and choice.

Gaiman's reading from 2013 uses a rare prompt copy that belonged to Charles Dickens himself and now resides in The New York Public Library. It was used for the express purpose of performing the story in front of an audience.

Is self-interest the only force motivating business? Or can altruism be an equally powerful driver of innovation? Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize–winning father of microcredit, discussed these questions—the subject of his latest book—with fellow economist Jeffrey Sachs.

The titan of American poetry was at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in November to talk about her latest collection, A Good Cry. She spoke with Joy-Ann Reid, the host of MSNBC's AM Joy. 

Exploring the power of narrative to travel from myth into reality, Greenblatt and Kushner trace the tale from it's biblical origins through its imaginings in the minds of writers and artists from St. Augustine to Albrecht Dürer to John Milton.

Kevin Young, the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Poetry Editor of The New Yorker, traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon in his most recent nonfiction book, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Washington Post columnist on the true story behind one of Josef Stalin's greatest crimes, against the people of Ukraine, during the Soviet famine of the early 1930s.

The future of archives with the Chicago-based artist, urban planner, and professor. This conversation was presented by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.