Podcasts
Smarty Pants

Reading the Trail Trees
Alexander Nemerov on his efforts to resurrect the spirits of our lost woods
Stephanie Bastek

Chaucer’s Leading Lady
Marion Turner on our enduring fascination with the Wife of Bath
Stephanie Bastek

The Comic Queen of Metafiction
Gunnhild Øyehaug talks about her twisted new collection of short stories
Stephanie Bastek

Justice, Arrested
Joanna Schwartz on the difficulty of holding the police accountable
Stephanie Bastek

Past is Present
Marie Arana on how violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future
Stephanie Bastek

The Promised Land of the Pampas
Javier Sinay on the forgotten history of the first Jewish immigrants in Argentina
Stephanie Bastek

Lost in Smog
Darren Byler on translating the fiction of Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun