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Entries by Christopher Lydon from 05/2010

Mustafa Barghouti: Is there Room for Gandhi in Palestine? (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.01.2010 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Edward Said, Radio Conversation, Gandhi, Israel, Brown University, Mustafa Barghouti, World News

Ask Palestinians why there is no Gandhi in their movement, and often the answer comes: but there are several, and Mustafa Barghouti should be recognized more widely as one of them.

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David Remnick: The "Race" Route over Obama's "Bridge" (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.04.2010 | Books
Read More: Empire, Politics, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, The New Yorker, David Remnick, Christopher Lydon, Race, Brown University, Biography, Books News

David Remnick is hanging out and indulging me here, late on a book-tour evening, in a little polite rattling of the racial premise of his Obama story,...

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Bill McKibben: Coming into View, Another Eaarth (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.06.2010 | Green
Read More: Radio Conversation, Bill Mckibben, Books, Climate Change, Environment, Earth, Planet, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Global Warming, Green News

Bill McKibben in conversation is counting a few of the ways that earth has changed since Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman on his fourth turn around the...

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Graham Robb's Paris: 18 Arrested Explosions (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.07.2010 | Books
Read More: Literature, Historian, History, Graham Robb, World, Radio Conversation, France, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Paris, Parisians, Books News

Graham Robb is making France irresistible again. His new book, Parisians, delivers nearly a score of long anecdotes about famous people in real scenes beyond imagining.

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Amartya Sen: The Open India (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.12.2010 | World
Read More: India, Amartya Sen, Radio, Nobel Laureate, Conversation, Harvard, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Economics, World News

Amartya Sen, when I ask about this "Year of India," quips that the biggest change in the "new" India is in our non-Indian heads. Meaning: that common...

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Kai Bird on Israel-Palestine: Cancel the Apocalypse (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.17.2010 | World
Read More: Palestine, Kai Bird, Hillel Kook, Books, Israel-Palestine, Radio, Conversation, Middle East, Pulitzer, Israel, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, World News

Kai Bird, as a Pulitzer-grade biographer and historian, is drawn to the apocalyptic. He's been "obsessed with things atomic," as he says -- with bomb...

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Pulitzer Poet Rae Armantrout (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.19.2010 | Arts
Read More: Radio Conversation, Rae Armantrout, Books, Poetry, Chris Lydon, Brown University, Pulitzer Prize, Arts News

Rae Armantrout, this year's Pulitzer Prize poet, calls her stance "quizzical." Fellow poets and critics write of her "oppositional temperament" (Stev...

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Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.26.2010 | Books
Read More: New York Review of Books, Literature, Damion Searls, Radio Conversation, Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Brown University, Proust, Green, Nyrb, Transcendentalists, Christopher Lydon, Rainer Maria Rilke, Books News

Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a "baggy monster." Henry David Thoreau'...

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Poet-Critic Dan Chiasson, the Natural (AUDIO)

| Posted 05.28.2010 | Arts
Read More: Wellesley College, Radio Conversation, Christopher Lydon, The Paris Review, Dan Chiasson, Poetry, Brown University, Arts News

Dan Chiasson has the easy charm of a natural New England oracle, in a tradition encompassing Emily Dickinson and William James, Robert Frost and Robe...

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