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  Susan Coll — Word Salad - with Tope Folarin 23.09.2026 59นาที

  Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore.Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailing mother, and she’s desperate for money. She takes a job at her neighborhood bookstore and tries, in vain, to make sense of illogical business of books. To make things worse, she’s forced to team up with a new hire—the enigmatic, flaky, larger-than-life, Sage—who shows up on her first day of work with zero administrative skills and her tiny, puffy, incessantly urinating dog that resembles an underfed rat. Something in the chaos begins to remind Matilda of her long-neglected creative side, and she starts to rediscover the person she once was before so much got in the way. But things get even more unmanageable when Matilda and Sage are tasked with putting together an event for the reclusive and controversial Dr. Jordan Rutabaga, a windbag of a public intellectual with a cult following that includes a number of people who would like to literally and figuratively see him dead. Rutabaga has a long list of alleged misdeeds, from plagiarism to failure to pay child support to stiffing the nanny. As the event date approaches, Matilda and Sage discover that Sage and Rutabaga have their own not uncomplicated past, adding yet another person to list of people who do not wish him well. Add in a lawsuit and an impending snowstorm along with the potentially sinister presence of Rutabaga himself, and Matilda is about to come undone. Bestselling author Susan Coll’s gastric, bookish, laugh-out-loud comedy of manners reminds us that sometimes things have to completely fall apart for them to perfectly come together. Susan Coll is the best-selling author of eight novels, including The Literati, Real Life and Other Fictions, Bookish People, and The Stager, a New York Times and Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice. Her novel Acceptance was made into a television movie starring Joan Cusack. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, Moment Magazine, NPR.org, and Atlantic.com. She is the events advisor at Politics and Prose Bookstore.Coll is in conversation with Tope Folarin, a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC, who serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. Tope serves as a board member of the Avalon Theater in Washington DC, the Pen/Faulkner Foundation, and as a member of the President’s Council of Pathfinder. In addition, he will serve as the inaugural critic-at-large for The Georgia Review in 2025.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781400346684?ic_referral=Bl_rco1uvTKCAP5mnM0vOZHPRXqFk6lQ-NIevQNaAfMwM6Qm89Xb01XD1KaY77KTa9eJbEX_xfz1uNDobY0yaah1qekq7KeyOUju8bGDvjskbZZHxhbk4MoMehUU5L4PnWXDwss
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  Allison Aubrey — Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love - with Rachel Martin 23.09.2026 1ชม. 2นาที

  Not long ago, celebrated journalist Allison Aubrey was having breakfast with her youngest child, who suddenly turned to her and said: Stop looking at me. In that moment, as her daughter signaled a need for independence, Aubrey felt a sting, like she’d been fired. She reminded herself: teenager, individuation. It’s her job to separate. But…ouch!That moment was a microcosm of what felt like a crisis of both identity and purpose. Many women come upon such moments of bewilderment at midlife: Beyond being a mother, beyond work, who am I? After years of striving, how do we broaden our horizons past parenting and a paycheck? What else is out there, now that the badges of achievement have started to feel less important?Aubrey had watched colleagues retire, leaving behind the frenetic pace and excitement of work life, only to flail from a lack of purpose and connection. If the smartest people she knew were struggling, who was thriving? Who was getting it right? To find the answers, she took a sabbatical and set out on a curiosity tour. She tuned her searchlight toward people oozing with energy and adventure. Deep within, she feared she wouldn’t find them, or that she would be disappointed. Maybe the best years are behind us?What she discovered “changed my life,” Aubrey says. The result is her first book, Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love, which answers the question What’s next? with an electrifying message and a winning and deeply practical road map to reimagine your life.Aubrey presents a captivating collection of women, ages 45 to 105, who centered creativity, connection, and joy showing how it's possible to find meaning and momentum in midlife. She takes what she’s learned, from scores of fascinating women she met both on this journey and in her decades of reporting as a journalist, to give readers a playbook for what could be next. She weaves together incredibly powerful tools of rediscovery to help you reignite your passions and hit your stride in midlife and beyond.She curates all the best tools to help readers answer a key question: Who am I now? She walks us through strategies to excavate our passions and rediscover what lights us up. She cuts through the clutter of health and self-improvement advice and offers readers indispensable, evidence-backed strategies to thrive. A kind of What Color Is Your Parachute? for middle age, this book provides us surprisingly simple yet specific steps we can take now to make the most of our third turns.Aubrey combines the rigor her audiences have come to expect with the attunement, curiosity, and sense of service that have made so many of her health stories go viral. This book is for everyone seeking meaning and momentum. It is the new blueprint for your midlife reawakening, with an empowering, essential message for women: the best time of your life starts now.Allison Aubrey is an award-winning science and health correspondent for NPR and a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning. Her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She is a founding host of Life Kit and the creator of the How to Thrive as You Age project. Aubrey is the winner of two James Beard Broadcast Media Awards, a National Press Club award for consumer reporting, and a New York Press Club Award for Excellence in Journalism. Aubrey will be joined in conversation with NPR's Rachel Martin, the co-creator and host of Wild Card, an interview game show about life's biggest questions. She invites notable guests to play a card game that lets them open up about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped their lives. PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781668207253?ic_referral=Vb0ycifFALyXk99c-7kdvo4U-JzO5Fo8zRISKJw3IY4wMxusJl8wKdV8-dA_YpK6TKE8VxonUnVpvC1ckeiecapHS1V8ZkubLx7FhReOWeSTWu0jEqACRnvg880rYfddjpvhKVI
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  Jared Huffman — No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism - with Congressman Jamie Raskin 22.09.2026 1ชม. 10นาที

  From Congressman Jared Huffman, a behind-the-scenes look at the shocking extent of Christian nationalism’s reach in our government—and the fight to defend church-state separation.Sinclair Lewis is said to have predicted, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” Democratic congressman Jared Huffman witnessed something eerily like that vision on January 6, 2021. That was his wake-up call to the shocking power of Christian nationalism.No Prophets argues that Christian nationalism is now America’s most dangerous political movement. Huffman uncovers the landscape of this movement—who they are, what they want, and how they plan to get it—and reveals how it has destabilized our nation more than most recognize. Blending deep research with untold stories from inside our government, he examines how this violent confederation of religious extremists is undermining science, education, foreign policy, and the very architecture of our democracy. But, Huffman argues, it’s not too late.Provocative and clear-eyed, No Prophets exposes an existential threat to our democracy and compels us to reclaim the values core to our secular republic.Jared Huffman is a US congressman representing California’s 2nd District and the only elected official in either house of Congress to admit that he does not believe in God. He founded the Congressional Freethought Caucus, which he cochairs with Congressman Jamie Raskin, to promote sound public policy based on reason, science, and moral values. He lives in San Rafael, California.Huffman is in conversation with Congressman Jamie Raskin, who proudly represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes most of Montgomery County and a small part of Prince George's County. Congressman Raskin was sworn into his fifth Term at the start of the 119th Congress on January 6, 2025. Rep. Raskin was chosen by the Democratic Caucus to be the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 119th Congress. Prior to his time in Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He was also a professor of constitutional law at American University’s Washington College of Law for more than 25 years. He has authored several books, including the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People, the highly-acclaimed We the Students: Supreme Court Cases For and About America’s Students, and the New York Times #1 best-seller Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy. Congressman Raskin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and is a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781324130482?ic_referral=Y1VYuJV0dGrwg3-a2v62YPF4UFyawvbl8XZGvKYFKSYwM_KA6KFDorIckVx8HXXQ0ygsB19bYfI3wBMMPNu7t6dJKzlJJpFFYMPgPfEcgMUdLJPIm5k-mib4oQjdVwMZ-IhE59o
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  Carolyn Forché — Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 - with Maureen Corrigan 21.09.2026 57นาที

  From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.Over half a century, Carolyn Forché has exemplified how a poet’s voice can cut through the cacophony of an age and speak to our inexhaustible responsibility to each other. Otherwhere spans her groundbreaking career, including the poems crafted in her early twenties from Gathering the Tribes (1976), a world of “horse-breath weather” and the whispering aspens of her grandmother’s Slovak; the “poetry of courage and compassion” (Margaret Atwood) in The Country Between Us (1981); and the elegiac realm of In the Lateness of the World (2020), with its bygone friends, besieged cities, and dreams of the displaced.Otherwhere gathers the finest poems of Forché’s body of work, selected by the poet herself, and includes a short new collection “If there is ink,” which lights a signal fire in a state of emergency. In these new poems, Forché sifts through the new ruins of the present, conjuring the early days of an emergency where people “pretend to live / as we have always lived,” and cautioning “There are no secrets to staying completely invisible so they are not included here.”As Hilton Als writes in The New Yorker, “Toni Morrison once observed that there is no such thing as bigger than life: life is big. Forché, in her profoundly ambitious work, aims to capture that bigness, line by line.”Carolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry are In the Lateness of the World, Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. She has also published her memoir, What You Have Heard Is True. In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. She lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer Harry Mattison.Forché is in conversation with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, and The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism. She has received the 2019 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle, the 2023 John Seigenthaler "Legends Award" and the 2023 Kukula Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction Reviewing from Washington Monthly Magazine.PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781668218242?ic_referral=FnLRyce6uUMsm_Xd9ZKVY_5Uy7dLhvN5UPXlKC4cWEEwM0qQBo1Fqd-znQoNBKZfJX_D6Fcpy9fugtHHMbfsMLK7n_nhXPynOjbBYM3pPlTSvA4j5XFgFdo69klr-xZ11KKauAc
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  Timothy W. Ryback — 53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy - with Margaret Talbot 20.09.2026 59นาที

  From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeksOn September 25, 1930, Adolf Hitler appeared before Germany’s Supreme Court and outlined his plans to destroy the Weimar Republic through democratic means. The judge asked, “So, only through constitutional means?” Hitler replied, “Jawohl!”Barely two years later, on January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed the fifteenth chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Within 53 days of that date, he had effected one of the most astonishing transformations in modern democracy, using the provisions of the Constitution to turn a democratic republic into an authoritarian state. Drawing from his 800-page political playbook, Mein Kampf, Hitler banned or neutered the print press and radio; purged the civil service and installed party loyalists; suspended civil liberties; compromised the courts; imposed Reich government control over the country’s seventeen federated states; slapped draconian tariffs on trading partners; co-opted, imprisoned, or drove political opponents into exile; assumed control over the central bank; and then compelled the Reichstag, the country’s legislative body, to pass an Enabling Act granting Hitler dictatorial power.Charting the key events of those dramatic days in taut and compelling prose, Timothy W. Ryback evokes the raw political power and increasing inevitability of Hitler’s state capture, amid heroic efforts by journalists and social democrats to save the republic, underscoring the alarming observation in the introduction to Joseph Goebbels’ collected essays: “The big joke on democracy is that it provides its mortal enemies with the means to its own destruction.”Timothy W. Ryback is director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He has written on the legacies of national socialism for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His books on Hitler, most recently Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power, have been translated into more than 20 languages. He and his wife live in Europe.Ryback is in conversation with Margaret Talbot, who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2004, and was previously a Contributing Writer for The New York Times magazine, and executive editor of The New Republic.  She is the author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century and (with her brother David Talbot), By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780802168245?ic_referral=jFBHRstT-Y9mUq8Do699HFh0IV5Yzz4d24kmFQav4IQwM9Wb3uRVAGcvC4YNmfJK_fcrLMWPv6tqP-kALieV9Ytkzptuh77DSYqVv1TxcuOFd3i1mxJj76bIoSmjav-60_pZ104
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  Francis Fukuyama — In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir - with Laura K. Field 19.09.2026 59นาที

  From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal intellectual memoir.Francis Fukuyama, a leading public intellectual, is well-known for his landmark, bestselling works of political philosophy and history. Here, for the first time, he charts his political and intellectual evolution across five transformative decades. We follow him from the circle of students around the conservative intellectual Allan Bloom at Cornell, into the halls of power in Washington and at the RAND Corporation, and into private conversations with world leaders from Muammar Qaddhafi to China’s powerful elite. Fukuyama touches on his family’s story, including his relatives’ internment during World War II along with other Japanese Americans. And, in surprisingly personal terms, he reflects on the experiences that led him to reevaluate his own thinking, most notably his dramatic public break with the neoconservative movement over the invasion of Iraq.More than a conventional memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man is personal history as political history—the story of a life that illuminates the troubled fate of democracy and liberalism over the last fifty years. Returning to and developing the concepts that have been central to his work—recognition, thymos, trust, identity, human nature, institutions, and the Last Man—Fukuyama brings the depth and richness of personal experience and pathbreaking scholarship to illuminate the crises of the twenty-first century. Urgent, brilliant, and essential, Fukuyama’s In the Realm of the Last Man reveals a major thinker grappling in real time with the convulsions of history, and looking ahead to our possible future.Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department’s policy planning staff. He is the author of Liberalism and Its Discontents, Identity, Political Order and Political Decay, The Origins of Political Order, The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.Fukuyama is joined in conversation with Laura K. Field, Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in Washington, DC. A political theorist by training, she holds a PhD in government from the University of Texas at Austin, and has held faculty positions at Rhodes College in Memphis, Georgetown University, and American University. In addition to her academic work she has written for The New Republic, Politico, The Bulwark, Le Monde, The New York Times and The Atlantic. Her book Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right is now out with Princeton University Press. She lives in Washington, DC. PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780374620431?ic_referral=hC3HmlFil5vanRfKxStvROoMEXdVDbUKw1X6UB9G6J4wM3jl7RArBWfoIPRBxgTtEAqudTFeD-nPTXLWQ910G5Lu3yuinFpkRIVraBRKPAoLUqM_6_Ds1-l1nj33z0ODXonk5Sg
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  Tom Rosenstiel — The Next Journalism: How the Press Must Change to Serve Democracy - with Asma Khalid & John Harwood 18.09.2026 1ชม. 6นาที

  An urgent case that the survival of democracy depends on reinventing the press, with ten pioneering reforms to help journalism better serve the public—from the co-author of the classic The Elements of Journalism. The crisis in journalism reflects a crisis in American democracy. Faith in news outlets has dwindled, news deserts are expanding, and audiences are turning away from alarmist, partisan, and fragmented coverage.In The Next Journalism, Tom Rosenstiel—veteran journalist, researcher, novelist, and co-author of The Elements of Journalism—argues that the roots of journalism’s failure are intellectual, not just financial or technological. He outlines ten fundamental ways journalism must change to become more useful, trustworthy, and collaborative with the communities it serves.From redefining news as a service rather than a product, to embracing transparency, to harnessing AI responsibly, Rosenstiel provides a bold, practical framework for rebuilding a press that empowers citizens instead of alienating them. With case studies, historical insight, and forward-looking ideas, this book offers journalists, policymakers, and readers alike a roadmap to ensuring democracy’s survival in the twenty-first century.Tom Rosenstiel is a journalist, media critic, researcher, novelist, and professor. He is the author of seven influential nonfiction books, including The Elements of Journalism, and four novels. Rosenstiel has been a press critic for the Los Angeles Times, chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek, press critic for MSNBC, and director of media studies at the Pew Research Center. He also led the American Press Institute and now serves as Eleanor Merrill Professor on the Future of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He lives in Washington, D.C.Rosenstiel is joined in conversation with Asma Khalid & John Harwood. Asma Khalid is the co-host of a new daily news podcast that launched this September from the BBC called The Global Story. She’s based in Washington DC, with a co-host in London — and together they tell the stories of where the world and America meet. The show airs as a podcast here in the U.S. and around the world on the BBC World Service radio reaching tens of millions of people around the globe.  She got her start in journalism in her home state of Indiana, but fell in love with radio through an internship at the BBC Newshour in London during graduate school. She's a frequent guest on TV news programs such as ABC's This Week, CNN's Inside Politics and PBS's Washington Week. A native of Indiana, Asma is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington and the University of Cambridge. For four decades, John Harwood has covered the White House, Congress, national politics and the economy for America’s leading news organizations. He has interviewed every president from George H.W. Bush to Joe Biden. He was part of the Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 9/11, and received an Emmy nomination for his hour-long live CNBC town hall with President Barack Obama. Born in Louisville, KY, he grew up in suburban Washington and graduated from Duke University with a degree in history and economics. He spent a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, and now chairs the Nieman Foundation Advisory Board.
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  Priya Parker — The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict - with Clint Smith 17.09.2026 1ชม. 4นาที

  A paradigm-shattering exploration of how we fight and how we build healthy conflict, from the author of The Art of GatheringWe say we want community. Successful teams. High-performing colleagues and workplaces. Dynamic friend groups. Yet many of us don’t understand the crucial element we need to forge long-lasting communities in our lives: healthy conflict.In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker explains that we can’t form and grow effective relationships without a fight. She rejects the idea that conflict is abnormal or that good groups don’t fight. All groups change and evolve; indeed, it’s because people disagree that good groups flourish.As she did in the now-classic The Art of Gathering, Parker draws on her far-reaching experience as a conflict facilitator, her own detailed research, and real-world examples to lay out the ways that people can identify disputes, determine how to address them, and what to do if they are insurmountable. Whether people disagree in the boardroom or the locker room, on a playground or in church, online or in person, conflict is a part of life, and understanding healthy conflict and how to harness its power is more important than ever. The Art of Fighting is a vital primer to help all of us understand how to do that.Priya Parker works to help people create collective meaning in their lives through gatherings. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, and the host and executive producer of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, NY. @priyaparkerParker is in conversation with Clint Smith, a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed, and the poetry collections, Counting Descent and Above Ground.PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780593420225?ic_referral=ug3vTEGINE3t_fIqIIHUFJwlTag1ZHLxtdiVbWIT5c0wM_ndYC-JQnxgyvtLHnGZ9CiG4qcXEPkMbW2bcLnEee0CYkdWCmiqxWbD6jLnU_hbRTTyKZVvxIIODwKooPWOvkcSPrU
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  John DeFerrari — Palaces of the Public: A Cultural History of Washington, DC's Hotels - with Carolyn Muraskin 17.09.2026 57นาที

  A unique look at Washington's landmark hotels and its cultural historyAny large city's marquee hotels are a great barometer of its social and cultural life. Washington DC, is exceptional in this regard, because visitors--from officials, diplomats, and lobbyists to everyday tourists--are so critical to the city's essential purpose as the nation's capital. The city's hotels have also been residences for locals and have served as important social centers, hosting events ranging from weddings and concerts to inaugural balls and the White House Correspondents Dinner.Palaces of the Public is a lively, in-depth, highly illustrated, history and architectural tour of the city's hotels, past and present. John DeFerrari explores the fascinating evolution of hostelries, from the taverns of the eighteenth century, to the boarding houses of the pre-Civil War era, to the creation of the modern hotel. Special chapters address the history of hotels for women, tourist hotels, and hotels run by and for African Americans in the days of segregation. Later chapters highlight the rise of motels in the mid-twentieth century, boutique hotels in recent years, and the impact of historic preservation on saving old hotel buildings.Readers interested in Washington's history, architecture, and historic preservation will be drawn to this book, with its unique perspective on how the city's culture and society developed over time.John DeFerrari is a native Washingtonian with a lifelong passion for local history and historic preservation, which he writes about in his blog, "Streets of Washington." He is the coauthor of Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions and several other books.DeFerrari is in conversation with Carolyn Muraskin, founder of DC Design Tours. Trained as an architect, Carolyn worked as an architectural designer before founding DC Design Tours in 2015. She and her team of professional designers-turned-tour-guides lead tours and lectures exploring Washington's architecture, urban planning, and history through the built environment. Carolyn has partnered with organizations including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Academy of Sciences, the Discovery Channel, and the Smithsonian Institution, where she also serves as a lecturer and guide.    PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781647127305?ic_referral=gthi5IoONHvxngwvr7mw9t8M0N7Oyd1RMAqf4YEQ7lswM89pYB96r-le2LDQMyyUH19fdXo5AGMJPvqoMJNBK3hvz0YFYGoRq3cz2UPWh81f0BDhW1KlEwPH7F9kWvWNwi2O0UA
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  Emily Wilson — Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature - with Claire Catenaccio 16.09.2026 1ชม. 4นาที

  From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world.Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson—renowned translator of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad—explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over “foreignizing” and “domesticizing” translation styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world. Brilliant, erudite, and yet accessible to readers with no classics background, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea is at once an introduction to the wonders of Greek and Roman literature, a manifesto for the value of translation in a rapidly changing world, and an invitation to encounter ancient cultures anew."An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." —Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." —Madeline MillerEmily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia.Wilson is in conversation with Claire Catenaccio, a scholar of Ancient Greek literature and its rich legacy in the modern world. She is the author of Monody in Euripides: Character and the Liberation of Form in Late Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and of numerous articles about ancient epic, drama, biography, and myth. As a dramaturg and director, she has worked extensively with contemporary productions of ancient plays. She teaches as a member of the faculty of Classics at Georgetown University.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781324099406?ic_referral=SfXA6gw1K1Z660rR9kg7klSeP_fm8f4hJ0OyPP9R_iQwM6_ZZN7nyO0Xk9dFg7yNA9KlklyO5lxP9hetf-3DcWYOCRrDk_deQKOXvpFI4UFUchcCeu-t_xwGagXyuFDvL_pIw04
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  Richard J. Powell — Colorstruck!: Painting, Pigment, Affect - with Tope Folarin 15.09.2026 1ชม. 1นาที

  How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer's attention. It assaults one's equilibrium physically and psychologically. In this stunning book, Richard Powell draws on the concept of "colorstruck," a twentieth-century slang term describing prejudice toward people with darker skin complexions, to provide a new history of Black American art.Powell charts the dynamics of paint and pigment in the works of artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Raymond Saunders, Sam Gilliam, Herv T l maque, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Nina Chanel Abney, and Henry Taylor. Using blue, green, yellow, orange, black, red, brown, and their combinations, he considers the historical and cultural contexts in which these colors unleash their visual magic and shows how the artists' vibrant palettes collide with undercurrents of race in unanticipated and thought-provoking ways. Powell shares compelling insights into the powerful chromatic forces manifested through artists' actions and viewers' reactions.A landmark work by an acclaimed art historian, this richly illustrated book offers a dazzling look at the transformative use of color by some of today's most exciting painters, revealing how hue and pigmentation strike a chord for freedom and reclamation in life as well as art.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCRichard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. His many books include Going There: Black Visual Satire, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture, and Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson.Powell is in conversation with Tope Folarin, a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington DC, who serves as Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He is the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Whiting Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other awards. Tope serves as a board member of the Avalon Theater in Washington DC, the Pen/Faulkner Foundation, and as a member of the President’s Council of Pathfinder. In addition, he will serve as the inaugural critic-at-large for The Georgia Review in 2025.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780691285160?ic_referral=Fwjj4aTQb5Zd7vWbbbLWNHhMB9gk9MYMbEqKoBLoaFcwM46F76ry-HUqYXkOR91-6cR98PKyjVhWVV-MZSb5u_RoLw1xXKwF_-gw-CMBK8-yd-LKzvooaLxX-nyxTnlEB3y3Ros
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  Group Talk with Authors — Challenging Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of High-Profile and Other Tough Cases 14.09.2026 58นาที

  Following on the success of Tough Cases, called "A law buff's dream" by headbutler.com, Challenging Cases collects judges' firsthand stories of deciding cases when the world is watchingMost cases judges decide garner little public attention. But occasionally, a case is tried both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion. In Challenging Cases, some of the country's leading jurists talk about the most high-profile cases they've handled--ones where the eyes of the world were upon them.Whether the defendant was a beloved major league baseball player, a movie star, or a well-known sex-offender, or whether the topic addressed an especially contentious aspect of the culture wars, these cases played out before millions of on-lookers, adding a whole new dimension to what is already a Solomonic responsibility.In their previous book, Tough Cases, called "an unprecedented view from the bench" by legal commentator Greta van Susteren, and "a genuine revelation" by Justin Driver in The Washington Post, Judges Canan, Mize, and Weisberg made us privy to the thought processes of judges making some of their hardest legal decisions. In Challenging Cases, over a dozen judges from courts in California, DC, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, Washington State, and even Kosovo speak to the added challenge of trials involving high-profile defendants. Cases include:The perjury trial of Roger ClemensThe sentencing of January 6th riotersThe case of Dr. Larry Nassar, accused of the sexual abuse of hundreds of female athletesThe Kosovo international war crimes trialThe Johnny Depp trialProviding the fodder for a whole new season of Law and Order, Challenging Cases is for every actual and armchair legal beagle in the country.Authors appearing in this talk include: Russell Canan, Regina Chu, Charles LaVerdiere, Reggie Walton, Dean Pineles, William Downing, Darlene Soltys, Gregory Mize, Dipti Pidikiti-Smith, Ana Reyes, and Fred Weisberg.PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9798893850208?ic_referral=lY2m7wBaTu8YkcuqEkTaip1JBZFs7As5KJ9x2c-11R4wM3F_y_Qgq7Gu0AH__pGwdo4WTZzhBbw7A3decKliWif8Q-Mi6Qkge5zuCM6Z0qXU7agZMxqtd_MiwHL-OCYwoPXpI0k
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  Sam A. Miller — Still Lost: Tales from the Year 2080 13.09.2026 1ชม. 5นาที

  From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant futureSam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million subscribers about the past and the present. Here, he turns towards fiction—and the future…A hyper advanced alien race seemingly solves all existential threats—no climate change, no nuclear weapons, no singularity crisis...and yet, in crisis we remain. Because humans are their own existential threat in the not dys- or u-topian, but simply “topian” world of this interconnected collection: In “Four Little Words” scientists discover the shocking truth about grass. In “Eggs For Roman,” a baboon with human intelligence gets cyberbullied. And in “Beat,” a young man must save his own life from the music that’s taken it hostage. Often funny and always profound, Still Lost bends reality just enough for it to become a mirror and takes its readers on a daring and strange ride—an ultra-timely, sardonic collection that feasts on the follies and earnest absurdities of humanity.Sam A. Miller is an educational comedic YouTuber and Shorty Awards finalist with 4.8 million subscribers, known for his sardonic, MS-paint-illustrated videos on everything from pirates to Pliny to presidential pets. A life-long reader, this is his debut publication.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780143139553?ic_referral=6BJ_4Aw7d2ICKK32lXY-YI8dLxctkmEo2Ri30JTIDt8wM50xsFT6zM0WUEsqZ2WBaTAJMmWSa_Dsthjt0RuNiQ0PpwTtT_jV_EWPE03hejT9KYMwr61LlhXyaRLgNtPa82x53o8
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  Paul Richter — The Distance Between Our Names: The Untold History of America's War on Japanese Immigrants -with Kathryn Tolbert 12.09.2026 1ชม.

  A gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II.In 1872, a new Japanese government’s first diplomatic delegation to the United States was greeted with rapturous welcome in San Francisco. For over ten days of lavish parties, the city’s elite admired the emissaries’ silk robes and noble bearing and began forging what they expected would be a special relationship between ascendant Pacific nations. Three decades later, a young Japanese immigrant disembarked at the very same waterfront to a different reception. “I was baptized with horse dung,” Nisuke Mitsumori recalled. “This was my very first impression of America.” Mitsumori arrived in the first angry days of America’s war on Japanese immigrants, a populist convulsion that became one of the nation’s darkest episodes of ethnic strife. In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrants faced mob violence and property destruction. Exclusionary laws restricted Japanese immigrants’ rights to own property, vote, and marry outside their race. Tensions intensified until 120,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned in camps during World War II.The Distance Between Our Names is the story of the early battles over Japanese immigration—the less dramatic, more insidious chapter. Esteemed journalist Paul Richter researched hundreds of memoirs, public records, news reports, and oral histories to deliver an urgent account of immigration history. This highly relevant book is enlivened by intimate stories of the newcomers—high and humble—such as the children banned from public schools, farmers struggling in a system rigged against them, the women who were swindled into marriages resulting in lifetimes of hardship, immigrant leaders battling to forestall punitive laws. Taken together, The Distance Between Our Names is a stunning narrative of resilience and struggle, a gripping story of one community’s brave fight for dignity in the face of savage discrimination.Paul Richter has written about national affairs and foreign policy for four decades. As a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, he was based in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC, and reported from sixty countries. During his years in Los Angeles he was principal author of California and the American Tax Revolt: Proposition 13 Five Years Later. His last book was The Ambassadors: America’s Diplomats on the Front Lines. The volume won the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Douglas Dillon Award for Books of Distinction on the Practice of American Diplomacy. He lives in the Washington, DC, area.Richter is in conversation with Kathryn Tolbert, a journalist with The Washington Post for more than 25 years, as an editor, reporter, and correspondent in Tokyo. She is the author of the oral history archive at www.warbrideproject.com and was a co-director of the documentary film Fall Seven Times Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides.  She is currently executive director of The War Bride Experience, Inc., a nonprofit organization that has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Museum of American History to create the traveling exhibition “Japanese War Brides, Across a Wide Divide.”PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781668031186?ic_referral=UY__guJdERTgm6Affc8lxycuvcSMqkF4ToW6l4_q6TMwM1YoRJNXrMEhO3Fw0FIUfj2PhWLyu9gJGL_t8qPuQXroPeoO-NeIE1JwAwRNv3ge-HXDx1TKlYzYLNyLOZPdXjdmxdA
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  David Conrad-Pérez — Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity - with Heather Boushey 11.09.2026 1ชม. 2นาที

  How the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire exposed New York City elites and laid the foundations for modern charityFire in the Heart of the City details the riveting story of what happened when a tragic fire in Greenwich Village threw Adolph Ochs, the ambitious new publisher of the New York Times, and Rose Schneiderman, a defiant young labor organizer, against each other in a momentous conflict. Following the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire--the worst disaster New York City had ever experienced--a significant feud emerged between New York's wealthy elite and labor rights' activists over who should organize the city's response: a nascent charity sector led by the city's wealthiest bankers or the reform-focused unions of Lower Manhattan.This revelatory account captures the rapid ascent of modern charity in America. David Conrad-Pérez details more than the disaster. He recreates what happened next, a watershed moment when a handful of charities on the brink of irrelevance were suddenly recast as New York's best answer to addressing the social and economic conditions responsible for the fire, a story long buried by destroyed files and hidden partnerships. Drawing on newly released archival documents, previously confidential reports, private diaries, and interviews, Conrad-Pérez uncovers the unprecedented campaign that advanced a small group of bankers and social elites and their idea for a new type of charity. The very people blamed for creating the problem became experts on the issues, saving the reputations of everyone involved--until now.Fire in the Heart of the City is an absorbing portrait of an extraordinary moment in the formation of modern American charity, casting new light on its profoundly dangerous and misunderstood legacy.David Conrad-Pérez is a media historian and the research director of the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University.Conrad-Peréz is in conversation with Heather Boushey, a professor of practice at the Kleinman Center where she runs the EconClimate Lab. Boushey is one of the nation’s most influential voices on economic policy.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781479837700?ic_referral=gc3lNo_QaWiezB5-fDiIzYfkMZLtKVk9SBwo7YVPl18wM72WE1Mvt1QD9VqBxDE7V7quAYYWuvpeLpgzPoMyxr1WSh8rqpcv8ISmQZRK2qD1t10OqYmU6fJaMWpp6p5DnFdny3g
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  Hiram L. Smith — Wassup, My N....: The Hidden History of a Controversial Word 11.09.2026 1ชม. 6นาที

  The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American English.Few words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as offensive, fierce debates continue over the use of "nigga"--who can say it, what it means, and whether it has been reclaimed as a term of endearment among Black people. Are these two words or one word with two pronunciations, and do they have different meanings?Wassup, My Nigga is the first book written by an African American linguist to explore the word's origin, history, and usage. Drawing on sources across time, from nineteenth-century slave narratives and ex-slave recordings to contemporary conversations on social media, the book reveals how the word's meanings vary according to context and across racial groups. It challenges myths about reclamation, explains why multiple pronunciations exist, and examines what the evidence really shows about how--and whether--meanings have changed over time.By presenting the discussion within the context of African American English, Wassup, My Nigga sheds new light on one of the most controversial words in American English and what it reveals about language, race, and identity.Hiram L. Smith is the Ruth Everett Sierzega Chair in Linguistics at Bucknell University. He published the first historical study of "nigga" and is the first African American linguist to write a book on the word. His research interests span African American English, Afro-Hispanic creole languages, Spanish, and Pennsylvania Dutch.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781647127398?ic_referral=YE8L0OY8ge-ixBdhFAC92vF7r_ciYBhAqa3ur99L6EQwM7x2K3KPtfqBQ6CA7a57fUfzVymvsRmeAm1QVRKiAIQTvgbIQdHEpif-yVZ3sqXlf-pHYo4Zgj1U4pF34iOPG67PTC8
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  K.S. Shay — Portrait of a Witch Undone - with Ioanna Papari Kosiori 10.09.2026 51นาที

  For fans of Starling House and A Discovery of Witches with a Thomas Crown Affair twist: a contemporary New England coven hides the mysteries that lurk in the marshes north of Boston—and how they are connected to the largest unsolved art heist in modern history.Once, Maeve Ryan was the strongest witch of her generation. But Maeve messed up a spell to contact the Lady of the Fens, an eerie Revenant who lures the unwary to their deaths in the brackish marshlands of the North Shore. Maeve destroyed her reputation, hurt her best friend Ash, and tainted herself with unbound, wild magic that transforms witches into insane Revenants.With unbound power eating away at Maeve’s mind, all she wants is to get rid of her magic. Forever. But Ash’s research into how the spell went awry leads in an unexpected direction: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and a link between the Lady and a decades-old art theft worth $500 million. When Ash disappears through a stolen painting’s empty frame, Maeve has to follow.Inside is the Other Marsh, a haunting, deadly realm where only the Lady’s rules apply. Within this half-world lie secrets about North Shore’s history, Maeve’s failure, and the fate of the masterpieces that disappeared over three decades ago. But as Maeve fights toward the truth, she risks her friendship, her coven, and her life against enemies hiding in plain sight.K.S. Shay grew up in the part of northeastern Massachusetts where half the streets are named after people who were accused of witchcraft. She loves live music, local gossip, and getting outside. You can find her across social media @ksshaywrites and at ksshaywrites.com.Shay is in conversation with Ioanna Papari Kosiori, a bookseller at Politics & Prose. She has received a master’s degree in Publishing from George Washington University. She’s worked as a Subsidiary Rights intern at Crown Publishing Group, and she is the recipient of a 2025 We Need Diverse Books Grant for young queer professionals in publishing. She publishes her own Substack articles and co-hosts the Novel Idea Book Club at P&P Union Market. PURCHASE BOOK:https://politics-prose.com/book/9781645662273?ic_referral=PsZspOfPL8pAbEFNPeqqCuU1UHjLBmWspmYgTnS4faAwM1uMUGpm_EYaJyN4b969k9dDk9PUZCFST5kLVpy4mKri7HhJsiq2HnKvv4y87MyHBEQCqTDplp4YpJBB1X8fIZRfxAA
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  Stuart E. Eizenstat — The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements That Changed the World - with Ambassador Carla A. Hills 10.09.2026 57นาที

  Now with a substantive afterword covering the start of the second Trump administration A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more.Inside the greatest diplomatic negotiations of the past 50 yearsIn one readable volume, diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat covers every major contemporary international agreement, from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols and the Iranian Nuclear Accord. Written from the perspective that only a participant in top level negotiations can bring, Eizenstat recounts the events that led up to the negotiation, the drama that took place around the table, and draws lessons from successful and unsuccessful strategies and tactics. Based on interviews with over 60 key figures in American diplomacy, including former presidents and secretaries of state, and major political figures abroad, Eizenstat provides an intimate view of diplomacy as today's history. The Art of Diplomacy will be an indispensable volume to understand American foreign policy and provide invaluable insights on the art of negotiation for anyone involved in government or business negotiations. The paperback edition adds a substantive afterword that presents the challenges and opportunities for the second Trump administration.Stuart E. Eizenstat has served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and Deputy Secretary of both Treasury and State. He is also the author of President Carter: The White House Years (2018), The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States (2012), and Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003). He is an international lawyer in Washington, DC.Eizenstat is in conversation with Ambassador Carla A. Hills. Amb. Hills served as United States Trade Representative from 1989 to 1993.  As a member of President George H.W. Bush’s Cabinet, Carla was the President’s principal advisor on international trade policy and as the nation’s chief trade negotiator, representing American interests in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations worldwide.  She negotiated and concluded the North American Free Trade Agreement, led the U.S. negotiations on the Uruguay Round of the World Trade Organization, and concluded a large number of trade and investment agreements with countries around the world.Earlier, Amb. Hills served as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (the third woman to hold a Cabinet position).  She also served as the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice.Before entering government, Amb. Hills co-founded and was partner in what is now the Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP law firm.  She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of California at Los Angeles Law School teaching antitrust law, and co-authored the Antitrust Adviser, which was published by McGraw-Hill. Over the years, she has served on the boards of a number of Fortune 500 companies.  She also serves in leadership positions with several not-for-profit organizations, including as Chair Emeritus of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and of the Inter-American Dialogue; member of the  Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Honorary Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics; member of the Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission;  and Co-Chair Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9798216277651?ic_referral=XtfNkuYodsXULairg8LOCQrLJ2ZR4kiIdmAtyah1FP0wM-dZDswvsJsNXmMXqbC1bKqK4RGtCHUM0AiCiSGiGNYZFnolpOoggIdAezrDcOa9LMmYAL5FJLJpO6Uu491QZ8t9oqU
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  Tony Fletcher — Pow!: When UK Punk Went Pop, 1980-84 - with Seth Lorinczi 09.09.2026 59นาที

  This event will be in partnership with Byrdland Records, the sister record store to Songbyrd Music House.POW is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a music magazine, interviewed many of the era's top artists, befriended rock stars, ran a record label, appeared on television, played in a band and found first love -- all at the same timeIn this sequel to his Boy About Town (2013), Tony Fletcher's incredible adventures in the world of British post-punk make for a compelling adventure of highs (an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney, friendship with Paul Weller of the hugely successful Jam, playing to huge audiences, discovering love and sex) and lows (heartbreak, learning the financial challenges of running a label the hard way, the collapse of his band). Despite the passage of time, he summons up all the enthusiasm he felt for the music and women he loved and marvels at the incredible experiences he had as a hard-working young striver.The generation raised on MTV, the New Musical Express and bands like Madness, Wham , the Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dexy's Midnight Runners and Killing Joke will love reading this inside view of a knowledgeable fan who got to know them all.Tony Fletcher is the author of eleven books, including best-selling biographies of Keith Moon, the Smiths and R.E.M., a memoir, a novel and more. As a London teenager, he started a fanzine called Jamming! in 1977 followed by a record label of the same name. He moved to New York in the late 1980s. Fletcher has played in bands, promoted concerts, DJed, written for numerous publications, hosted podcasts and appeared on and/or produced TV and radio shows. His hobbies include running mountains, from the Catskills to the Himalayas and any points in-between. He writes twice weekly at tonyfletcher.substack.com. Fletcher is in conversation with Seth Lorinczi, who writes on culture and music. His work appears in such publications as The Guardian, Narratively, Maggot Brain, Fretboard Journal and Sunday Long Read (upcoming) as well as numerous print and digital anthologies; he’s also the author of Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir (Spiral Path Collective, 2024). As a speaker and lecturer on music (and DC punk in particular), he’s presented extensively on both coasts at such cultural and academic institutions as Yale, Berkeley, Washington DC's MLK Library and numerous other venues that clearly didn’t vet him thoroughly enough.Byrdland is located in the Union Market District of Washington D.C. and carries over 5000 new and used vinyl records, curated to the tastes of DC music lovers. They carry the newest and best vinyl records in indie rock, pop, soul, R&B, hip hop, and jazz in addition to their robust used music section. Byrdland was named Washington D.C.’s Best Record Store by Washington City Paper in 2021.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9798999048776?ic_referral=MeWI4zzRDyQxFDY7OSz9NcqOj-hhHadDMNH0OBqRFlkwM1gjEEt8BPm4HYdrGooMXh4PpNlITYSQDIZe3HgOYpsrLmeMEEPftynAOzFPManBOdawjTRetrEjzQzjlXcjfvpAl7E
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  Nadia Hashimi — City of Widows - with Liza Mundy 09.09.2026 53นาที

  From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power.In February 2020 the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of occupation. A whole generation of Afghan women had been born during that time—women who had grown up in relative peace, gone to school, entered the professions, even served in the army and Parliament. The women of Afghanistan watched as the Taliban filled the streets again. They knew everything was about to change.In the bustling, cosmopolitan city of Kabul, women are TV newscasters, shop owners, doctors, teachers, lawyers, even soldiers. They include Marjan, who fought with the Afghan army, and will risk everything to keep her daughter Hawa safe. In her earlier days Marjan was called Rahima and had lived the life of a bacha posh—a girl raised as a boy until she came of age. Forced into an early marriage, Rahima took the name Marjan when she fled her warlord husband. She’s created a whole new life for herself, one she will not give up easily.So has Soraya, who defiantly wore red lipstick as she led the army’s all-female combat force over the objections of her upper-class family. Soraya’s now a wanted woman whose brother may choose not to shelter her from the Taliban. What will become of her? Or Mina, a journalist and broadcaster whose beautiful face is known to everyone in Kabul—including the new regime?Fight or flight? Or find a third way? One thing is for certain: none of these women will meekly accept her fate.An epic saga of fear, resistance, change, and reinvention, City of Widows gives voices to the unforgettable Afghan women at a crossroads of history.Nadia Hashimi is a pediatrician turned international bestselling novelist and daughter of Afghan immigrants. She is the author of four books for adults: The Pearl that Broke Its Shell, A House Without Windows, When the Moon Is Low, and Sparks Like Stars, as well as the middle grade novels One Half from the East and The Sky at Our Feet. She lives with her family in the Washington, DC, suburbs.Hashimi is in conversation with Liza Mundy, an award-winning journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four books, including Code Girls. A former staff writer for The Washington Post, Mundy writes for The Atlantic, Politico, and Smithsonian Magazine, among other publications.PURCHASE:https://politics-prose.com/book/9780063423541?ic_referral=Qr729UfQ_pXMY7rnNZnumC7MygL-ikysVgmbKi68HWUwM67WiYvJdrTDrFqS5U8MJeAIkUV4IMFkfXe_TOus6HaDmKhEd2pFo0LTPVbYt-98QDb8K9RiIp5GzuCLbRx8wRLZNic