Politics and Prose: Holiday Picks 2025 (with Lissa and Anton)

Book Talk: Rep. Jim Clyburn — The First Eight - with Norman Ornstein

Book Talk: Susan Cheever — When All the Men Wore Hatsr — with Molly Jong-Fast

Book Talk: Mark Z. Danielewski — Tom's Crossing

Book Talk: Tim Wu — The Age of Extraction - with Cecilia Kang

Book Talk: Martha Wells — Queen Demon (Rising World #2) - with Dr. Leigha McReynolds

Mark Z. Danielewski is grateful for bookstores

Book Talk: Christine Platt — Less Is Liberation - with Dr. Gelane Gemechisa

Book Talk: Mona Awad — We Love You, Bunny - with Haili Blassingame

Book Talk: Charlie Mackesy — Always Remember - with Nora Krug

Book Talk: Nicholas Thompson — The Running Ground - with James Fallows

Book Talk: Gish Jen — Bad Bad Girl - with Melissa Block

Book Talk: Jonathan Karl — Retribution — with Katherine Faulders

Book Talk: Jonathan Freedland — The Traitors Circle - with Franklin Foer

Book Talk: Brandon Taylor — Minor Black Figures - with Yuri Long

Book Talk: Amber Sparks — Happy People Don't Live Here: A Novel - WITH Shannon Sanders

Book Talk: Joanne Molinaro — The Korean Vegan - with Daniela Galarza

Book Talk: Michael Twitty — Recipes from the American South - with Aaron Hutcherson

Book Talk: Joshua Clark Davis — Police Against the Movement - with Judy Richardson

Book Talk: Adam Johnson — The Wayfinder - with Ray Nayler

Book Talk: Rachel Kolb — Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice - with Kristen Harmon

Book Talk: Lisa Graves — Without Precedent- with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Book Talk: In the Garden of Memory — Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)- with Peter L.W. Osnos

Book Talk: Marion Orr — House of Diggs- with Congressman G.K. Butterfield

Book Talk: Ken Stern — Healthy to 100 - with Michel Martin

Book Talk: Trymaine Lee — A Thousand Ways to Die - with Yamiche Alcindor

Book Talk: Beverly Daniel Tatum — Peril and Promise with Ayesha Rascoe

Book Talk: Sasha Bonét — The Waterbearers - with Glory Edim

Book Talk: Chet'la Sebree — Blue Opening - with Thea Brown

Book Talk: Jake Tapper — Race Against Terror - with David Ignatius