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2 months ago | 
brickmag.com | Paul Holdengräber |Thomas Larson
Throughout his career, Paul Holdengräber has chronicled the times we live in by interviewing artists who broaden our sense of creative life. This work continued through the start of the pandemic with The Quarantine Tapes, which he hosted for two years, documenting what was occupying the attentions of writers, musicians, and thinkers. On June 11, 2020, he phoned poet and scholar Natalie Diaz.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
brickmag.com | Eleanor Wachtel |Thomas Larson
A version of this conversation was broadcast on CBC Radio One’s Writers & Company on April 24, 2022, produced by Sandra Rabinovitch. I first encountered the writing of Claire Keegan when I met her at a literary festival in Victoria more than twenty years ago. I saw her again in Dublin and elsewhere, but I knew from the beginning that hers was an original voice, quiet and compelling.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
brickmag.com | Thomas Larson
Brick Podcast Episode 11: Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst 00:00 / 12:32 Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 12:32 | Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Jan Zwicky reads from “George Whalley’s Contemplative Mind” and Robert Bringhurst reads from “The Bookseller,” both pieces from Brick 113. With an introduction by Brick publisher, Laurie Graham....
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
bridgeeight.com | Thomas Larson
O, the diabolical pleasures of Tár: the pseudonymous role, a conductor of ferocious talent, who leads the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and sets up a scholarship program for young women conductors to manipulate them and, in the process, betray her wife, her personal assistant, her assistant conductor who “questions her integrity,” a protégé who commits suicide, and, fait accompli, herself.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Leon Hadar |Oscar Clarke |Brad Strotten |Thomas Larson
My socialisation into polite liberal society‚ÄĒmy crunchy, Quaker-school education and my progressive cultural milieu in a Northeastern American metropolis‚ÄĒhelped to forge my worldview. I was, after all, the product of a culture and a generation in which the liberal world presided over the most peaceful and prosperous societies in the history of humanity. Liberalism seemed to be the natural order of things.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Leon Hadar |Oscar Clarke |Brad Strotten |Thomas Larson
A review of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz, 432 pages, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (June 2024)In the early 1990s, I was a research fellow with the Cato Institute and served as the Libertarian Party’s shadow secretary of state. It was a great time to be a believer in personal and economic liberty.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Oscar Clarke |Brad Strotten |Thomas Larson |Lawrence Krauss
A review of The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II by Charlotte A. Lerg (ed.), 342 pages, Berghahn Books (August 2024). It is difficult to overstate the contribution to European culture made by Melvin Lasky’s journalism. But Lasky has suffered the fate of the editor, which is to be forgotten.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Brad Strotten |Thomas Larson |Lawrence Krauss |George Perry |Bradley Strotten
A review of Ghost Chilli by Nikkitha Bakshani, 288 pages, Fleet (July 2024)In Ghost Chilli, the debut novel by London-based American writer Nikkitha Bakshani, progressive systems of belief compete for primacy in the disorganised personality of protagonist Muskan, an anxious psychobabbler and hyper-race-conscious Indian expat working for foodie magazines in New York.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
brickmag.com | Fady Joudah |Thomas Larson
[…]In the arboretum the mosquitoes were polite. They purchased our blood for a fair price as we paused for the flowers. My iPhone identified the plants. Delete, reinstall. The truthrides photons, always arrivingbeautiful, like God, periodically dead or terminated. Hibiscus. Marigold. My intelligenceoffers my ignorance hope,my wish manacles me to it. We needed memory, we got myelin. Slow at first to guard usfrom the animal we’re destined to suppress,rise above. And then fast,foaming at the terabyte.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Thomas Larson |Lawrence Krauss |George Perry |Ralph Leonard
Introduction[00:00] Jonathan Kay: Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I’m your host, Jonathan Kay, a senior editor at Quillette. Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an independent, grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. If you’d like to support the podcast, you can do so by going to Quillette.com and becoming a paid subscriber. This subscription will also give you access to all our articles and early access to Quillette social events.
