With (Drawn & Quarterly, tr. Ishai Mishory), Israeli cartoonist has created a fantastic, thoughtful, wonderful, hilarious, complex, cinematic thrill-ride of a story about a search for the Ark of the Covenant in modern-day Israel and the West…

They were among the last people I recorded with before lockdown, and now translators and are back to talk about co-curating the (which runs from November 11 to 14, 2021), and how the theme they developed for the postponed 2020 edition, , became…

With (Pegasus Books), professor distills a half-century of reading and teaching Camus’ work to show us how the writer and thinker continues to resonate 60+ years after his untimely death. We get into his accidental origins with Camus and how Camus…

Cartoonist and animator joins the show to celebrate his new book, (New York Review Comics), a Civil War-era story about a Quaker who joins the Union army. We get into how Dash’s upbringing as a Quaker in Virginia led him to this book, the that…

With , artist has created a panoramic history painting documenting the depths of the Trump years. We get into the impetus for that project, its enormous scale (140 feet long), its Brechtian roots, and its reproduction as a 19-foot accordion book ()….

Writer, poet, professor & editor returns to the show for a wide-ranging conversation about art, depression, anxiety, midlife health crises (his diabetes, my CLL), Buddhism, Vietnam & contagious trauma, writing his autobiography on , and more….