Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Recent Episodes

Joshua Cohen’s Camp

Posted November 15, 2024 • 00:37:22

We’re with the writer’s writer Joshua Cohen—beyond category, but ever ahead of the game. He’s a realist, a fantasist, a satirist, New Jersey-born...

United States of Fear

Posted November 7, 2024 • 00:24:51

Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population,...

Amber’s America: Love and Outrage

Posted November 2, 2024 • 00:31:05

In the long weekend of solemn suspense before our presidential election in 2024, our guest is Amber. I met Amber on a call-in radio show almost 30 years...

Playground

Posted October 24, 2024 • 00:42:56

Richard Powers may just be the bravest big novelist out there. His new book is titled Playground, in which AI plays with the natural world....

A Jerusalem Tragedy

Posted October 10, 2024 • 00:50:56

For our shattering Age of October 7, Nathan Thrall has written a double masterpiece, in my reading. Already a Pulitzer Prize-winner for non-fiction,...