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Stephen Burt’s World of Poetry

Posted December 29, 2016

Resolved in this New Year: read, and listen closely, to more poetry.This week, we’re starting with one of our favorite local poets, Stephen (or Steph)...

Post-Democracy in America

Posted December 15, 201600:49:54

"Donald Trump is a post-democratic leader. The liberal democratic model—of which Obama was the last president—is completely dead."

Bob Dylan, The Poet

Posted December 7, 2016

Bob Dylan, the poet, has been singing more than 50 years, but have you ever really stopped to listen to the words? Now that Dylan is a Nobel giant...

Trump in the World

Posted December 1, 201600:49:59

Trump says he knows more than the generals, so this week we’re talking to the colonels about the future of U.S. foreign policy.Col. Lawrence Wilkerson joins...

Swingin’ with Zadie Smith

Posted November 22, 201600:49:57

Zadie Smith is the writer who likes to say she learns more from dancers – Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson, Baryshnikov, Beyoncé – than from writers...