Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism