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Jelani Cobb, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
November 9, 2021
Current Events, History/Bio, Social Sci/Politics
Michelle Goldberg
April 14, 2009
History/Bio, Science/Nature, Current Events
Jane Hirshfield, Sean M. Carroll
April 5, 2011
Fiction/Literature, Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir, Science/Nature
Joel Kotkin
February 11, 2010
Current Events, Social Sci/Politics
Colson Whitehead, Laurie Winer
May 13, 2014
Arts & Entertainment, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature
Pico Iyer
May 13, 2008
Biography, Religion/Spirituality
Francis Fukuyama, Jared Diamond
April 21, 2011
Fiction/Literature, History/Bio, Science/Nature, Social Sci/Politics
Arlie Hochschild
May 24, 2012
Business/Tech, Fiction/Literature, Social Sci/Politics
Sandra Cisneros, Manuel Muñoz, George Saunders, John Freeman
May 11, 2021
Fiction/Literature
Neil deGrasse Tyson
February 4, 2009
Science/Nature
Claudia Rankine, Robin Coste Lewis, Maggie Nelson
October 23, 2014
California/The West, Essay/Memoir, Fiction/Literature, Poetry, Social Sci/Politics
George Lakoff
June 23, 2009
Others, Science/Nature
Goli Taraghi, Reza Aslan
November 5, 2013
Fiction/Literature, Religion/Spirituality, Social Sci/Politics
Robert Scheer
June 12, 2008
Others, Current Events
Elif Batuman
March 3, 2010
Fiction/Literature, Essay/Memoir
Andrei Codrescu
April 28, 2009
Others, Essay/Memoir
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