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Blyth Returns

Posted June 15, 202300:39:08

We’re back in the pub a year later with Mark Blyth, the outspoken political economist at Brown University—which means he works and talks and thinks...

It Ain’t Over

Posted June 1, 202300:42:36

This week: a show from our archive from The Connection days.

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” That’s Yogi Berra’s ageless...

A Working Life with Eileen Myles

Posted May 16, 202300:32:24

The line is intoned now as a sort of chapter heading in our literary-artistic history: Eileen Myles grew up in Boston/Cambridge and moved to New...

Failing Intelligence

Posted May 4, 202300:53:05

We’re humbled—we’re also scared—by the power of chatbots like GPT-4 to do pretty much everything that word people have ever done, but faster...

Frozen Moments with Ed Koren

Posted April 19, 202300:33:25

Here’s a last burst of wind in our sails, a last gentle guffaw, from a listener we came to adore: the cartoonist Ed Koren. You knew Ed Koren, too,...