Raj Patel discusses The Value of Nothing on January 11, 2010 (talk) (questions)

Mika Brzezinksi discusses All Things at Once in conversation with Joe Scarborough on January 8, 2010 (talk) (questions)

Margaret Atwood discusses Year of the Flood on October 29, 2009 (introduction) (hymn) (my body is my earthly ark) (holy weeds) (reading) (questions)

David Plouffe discusses The Audacity to Win on November 18, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Elizabeth Benedict discusses Mentors, Muses & Monsters on November 13, 2009 with Chris Castellani, Margot Livesey, Jay Cantor, Julia Glass, and Jim Shepard (intro) (Chris Castellani) (Margot Livesey) (Jim Shepard) (Jay Cantor) (Julia Glass) (Discussion) (Questions)

Lidia Batianich and Judith Jones discuss Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy and The Pleasures of Cooking for One on November 9, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Al Gore discusses Our Choice on November 7, 2009 (talk)

Ben Ratliff discusses The Jazz Ear with George Garzone on November 3, 2009 (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6) (part 7) (part 8)

Peter Singer and Richard Stearns discuss The Life You Can Save and The Hole in the Gospel on October 22, 2009 (talk)

Taylor Branch discusses The Clinton Tapes on October 8, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discuss Half the Sky on October 5, 2009 (Nicholas Kristof)
(Sheryl WuDunn) (Questions)

Karen Armstrong discusses The Case for God on October 2, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Kay Redfield Jamison discusses Nothing Was The Same on October 1, 2009 (talk) (questions)
E.L. Doctorow discusses Homer and Langley with Jason Epstein on September 29, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Howard Dean discusses Prescriptions for Real Health Care Reform on September 8, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Ben George, Steve Almond, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and Sven Birkerts discuss The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood on June 9, 2009 (introduction) (Ben George) (Sven Birkerts) (Steve Almond) (Jennifer Finney Boylan) (questions)

Adrian Tomine and Seth, discussing 32 Stories and George Sprott, 1894-1975 on June 2, 2009 (Adrian Tomine, Seth) (questions)

Howard Zinn in conversation with Jimmy Tingle, discussing A Young People's History of the United States on May 7, 2009 (introduction) (talk) (questions)

Chuck Palahniuk, with journalist David Wildman, discusses Pygmy on May 5, 2009 (talk) (interview) (conclusion)

Maria Tatar in conversation with Homi Bhabha, discussing Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood on April 27, 2009 (talk part one,part two) (questions)

Robert Pinsky's Recitation Celebration: Luminaries from Various Walks of Life Read Poetry Aloud from Essential Pleasures on April 7, 2009

1. Introduction by Robert Pinsky
2. Old Man Leaves Party, by Mark Strand (read by Jody Adams)
3. Ballad of Aunt Geneva, by Marilyn Nelson (read by Tom Magliozzi)
4. Woofer (When I Consider the African-American), by Terrance Hayes (read by Michael Holley)
5. To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell (read by Stephen Greenblatt)
6. Questions from a Worker Who Reads, by Bertolt Brecht (read by Steven Pinker)
7. Dulce Et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen (read by Bill Littlefield)
8. Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams, by Kenneth Koch (read by Robert Pinsky)
9. Untitled, by Tom Magliozzi (read by Tom Magliozzi)
10. Homage to My Hips, by Lucille Clifton (read by Michael Holley)
11. They Flee From Me, by Sir Thomas Wyatt (read by Stephen Greenblatt)
12. The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky, by Emily Dickinson (read by Steven Pinker)
13. Columbus, by Ogden Nash (read by Bill Littlefield)
14. Tomatoes, by Stephen Dobyns; and To the Reader, by Ben Johnson (read by Robert Pinsky)
15. Skunk Hour, by Robert Lowell (read by Bob Hildreth)
16. Announcement by Bob Hildreth

Paul Krugman in conversation with David Gergen, discussing The Return of Depression Economics and The Conscience of a Liberal on February 9, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Muhammad Yunus, discussing Creating a World Without Poverty on February 3, 2009 (talk)

Azar Nafisi, discussing Things I've Been Silent About on January 23, 2009 (talk) (questions)

Jessica Lange, discussing 50 Photographs in conversation with The Brattle's Ned Hinkle on December 9, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Malcolm Gladwell, discussing Outliers on December 8, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Annie Leibovitz, discussing Annie Leibovitz at Work on November 24, 2008 (talk) (questions)

E. O. Wilson and Bert Hoelldobler, discussing The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies on November 20, 2008 (talk)

All Things OED Panel Discussion with Simon Winchester, Jesse Sheidlower, Ammon Shea, and Barbara Wallraff on November 13th, 2008 (Simon Winchester, Jesse Sheidlower, and Barbara Walraff) (Ammon Shea) (questions)

Gregory Maguire, discussing A Lion Among Men with Maria Tatar on October 22, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Presidential Election Topics Panel with Michael Tomasky, Peter W. Galbraith, Frances Fitzgerald, and Mark Danner on October 15th, 2008 (Mark Danner) (Frances Fitzgerald) (Peter W. Galbraith) (Michael Tomasky)

Sarah Vowell, discussing The Wordy Shipmates on October 11, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Neal Stephenson, discussing Anathem on September 20, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Lewis Black, discussing Me of Little Faith on June 7, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Russell Banks, Mike Gravel and Joe Lauria, in a conversation on American Identity, on May 29, 2008 (Russel Banks) (Mike Gravel) (Joe Lauria) (Questions)

Fareed Zakaria in conversation with Niall Ferguson, discussing The Post-American World on May 8, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Howard Zinn and Mike Konopacki discussing A People's History of American Empire on April 24, 2008 (intro) (video) (talk) (questions)

Alexander McCall Smith, discussing The Miracle at Speedy Motors on April 16, 2008 (talk: 1 2) (questions)

Isabel Allende, discussing The Sum of Our Days, on April 8, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Daoud Hari in conversation with co-author Megan McKenna, discussing The Translator on April 1, 2008 (talk: 1 2 3 4 5) (questions: 1 2)

Kwame Anthony Appiah, discussing Experiments in Ethics on February 13th, 2008 (talk)

Charles Baxter, discussing The Soul Thief on February 12, 2008 (talk) (questions)

A National Book Critics Circle panel discussion, with Steven Pinker, Leslie Epstein and Maureen McLane with David Mehegan on February 6, 2008 (discussion) (questions)

Anthony Lewis with Alex S. Jones, discussing Freedom for the Thought That We Hate, on January 31, 2008 (talk) (questions)

Tom Brokaw discussing Boom! Voice of the Sixties on December 3rd, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Samantha Power and Bob Ryan, discussing David Halberstam and The Coldest Winter, on November 27th, 2007 (talk: 1, 2) (questions: 1, 2, 3, 4)

The Reverend Peter Gomes, discussing The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, on November 12, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Ken Burns with Christopher Lydon, discussing The War: An Intimate History, on October 23, 2007 (talk)

Paul Krugman with Jack Beatty, discussing Conscience of a Liberal, on October 22, 2007 (talk)

Stephen King, Heidi Pitlor, Jim Shepard, Karen Russell, and Richard Russo discussing Best American Short Stories 2007, on October 16, 2007. (Stephen King) (Heidi Pitlor) (Jim Shepard) (Karen Russell) (Richard Russo) (questions)

Garry Kasparov, discussing How Life Imitates Chess, on October 15, 2007 (talk) (questions)

James D. Watson, discussing Avoid Boring People, on October 3, 2007 (talk)

Michael Palin, discussing Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years, on September 7, 2007 (talk) (questions)

John Leland, discussing Why Kerouac Matters, and Joyce Johnson, discussing Minor Characters, on September 6, 2007 (Leland talk) (Johnson talk) (questions)

Barbara Kingsolver, discussing Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, on May 24, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Robert Dallek, discussing Nixon and Kissinger, on May 7, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Michael Chabon, discussing The Yiddish Policemen's Union, on May 3, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Gary Shteyngart, discussing his novel Absurdian, on April 16, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Hermione Lee, discussing Edith Wharton: A Biography, on April 14, 2007 (talk) (questions)

Karen King, discussing Reading Judas: The Gospels of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, on March 07, 2007 (talk)

Norman Mailer, discussing his novel The Castle in the Forest, on February 15, 2007 (talk)

Martin Amis, discussing his novel House of Meetings, on January 31, 2007 (talk)

Calvin Trillin, in conversation with Christopher Lydon, about his new book About Alice, on January 19, 2007 (talk)

Adam Gopnik & Mireille Guiliano discussing Through the Children's Gate: A home in New York and A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure, on January 17, 2007 (talk)

E.O. Wilson, discussing The Creation: A Meeting of Science and Religion, on November 2006 (introduction) (talk)

Richard Dawkins, discussing The God Delusion, on October 2006 (talk)

John Updike, discussing his novel Terrorist, on June 2006 (introduction) (talk)

Madeline Albright, discussing The Mighty & the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, on May of 2006 (introduction) (talk)

Tony Kushner and Robert Brunstein, discussing The Library of America's Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961, on March of 2006 (talk)

Senator John McCain, discussing Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember, on December of 2005 (talk)

Joan Didion with Christopher Lydon, discussing her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, on October 2005 (talk)

Don Lattin, discussing The Harvard Psychedelic Club (talk)

Jaron Lanier, discussing You Are Not a Gadget (talk)

Raj Patel, discussing The Value of Nothing (talk)

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, discussing All Things at Once (talk)

Elizabeth Kostova, discussing The Swan Thieves (talk)

Charlotte Dennett, discussing The People v. Bush (talk)

David Walker, discussing Comeback America (talk)

Robert Lyons, discussing On Any Given Sunday (talk)

Kristin Cashore, discussing Fire (talk)

Maria Tatar and Odds Bodkin, discussing Storytelling in the Electronic Era (talk: part 1) (talk: part 2)

Harold Evans and Jason Epstein, discussing My Paper Chase and Eating (talk)

John Cassidy, discussing How Markets Fail (talk)

Chris Kimball and the cast of America's Test Kitchen discuss The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook (talk)

Lauren Grodstein, discussing A Friend of the Family (talk)

David Chang, discussing Momofuku (talk)

Garrison Keillor, discussing A Christmas Blizzard (talk)

James Ellroy, discussing Blood's a Rover (talk)

John Freeman, discussing Tyranny of Email (talk)

Harvey Silverglate, discussing Three Felonies a Day (talk)

Jesse Sheidlower, discussing The F-Word (talk)

E.L. Doctorow, discussing Homer & Langley (talk)

Tad Friend, discussing Cheerful Money (talk)

Kay Redfield Jamison, discussing Nothing Was The Same (talk)

Jill McCorkle, discussing Going Away Shoes (talk)

Andrew Bacevich, discussing The Limits of Power (talk)

Taylor Branch, discussing The Clinton Tapes (talk)

Rabih Alameddine, discussing the Hakawati (talk)

Nicholas Christakis, discussing Connected (talk)

Jonah Lehrer, discussing How We Decide (talk)

James Wood, discussing How Fiction Works (talk)

Janet Malcolm, discussing Two Lives (talk)

Alan Dershowitz, discussing Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (talk)

Kevin Smokler, discussing Bookmark Now (talk)

Carol Bundy, discussing The Nature of Sacrifice (talk)

David Ferry, reading from The Georgics (talk)

Jay Allison and Mark Kramer, discussing Telling True Stories (talk)