Feb 28, 2026

Vol. 6 of Story Time, a new series on the program featuring an author reading aloud from her work. In this episode, ⁠Emily Nemens⁠ reads aloud from her sophomore novel, ⁠Clutch⁠, available from Tin House / Zando.

Nemens’s debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and...

Feb 26, 2026

Volume 81 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad plants a beautiful garden...continues tedious AWP preparations...binge-watching UFO docuseries...the aliens are probably in the ocean...Mira still hasn't set up her hummingbird cam...is now invested in a new conspiracy theory involving the late Queen Elizabeth...

Feb 24, 2026

⁠Emily Nemens⁠ is the author of the novel ⁠Clutch⁠, available from Tin House.

Nemens's debut novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and named one of NPR’s and Lit Hub’s favorite books of 2020. Her stories have appeared in BOMB, The Gettysburg Review, n+1, and elsewhere;...

Feb 19, 2026

Volume 80 of Brad & Mira For the Culture...Brad's AWP travel packing anxiety...his compassion for Chevy Chase....watching Eyes Wide Shut, looking for clues to our present reality...contemplating a possible trip to Guatemala....Mira reviews Wuthering Heights..."shockingly prude"...getting obsessed with the Nancy Guthrie...

Feb 17, 2026

⁠Eric Lichtblau⁠ is the author of ⁠American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate⁠, available from Little, Brown & Co.

Lichtblau is a Washington journalist and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He was a reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times for nearly 15 years until...