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Political GabfestVery Heavy ForceThis week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the ominous juxtaposition of Trump sending National Guard troops and Marines to quell mostly peaceful protests in LA with his impending military parade in DC, RFK Jr. firing the entire CDC vaccine advisory board and what this means for the future of vaccines, and a unanimous Supreme Court decision that makes it easier to win “reverse discrimination” cases.
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: David Marchese for the New York Times: The Interview: Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Th...2025-06-121h 00
Slate Daily FeedPolitical Gabfest | Very Heavy ForceThis week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the ominous juxtaposition of Trump sending National Guard troops and Marines to quell mostly peaceful protests in LA with his impending military parade in DC, RFK Jr. firing the entire CDC vaccine advisory board and what this means for the future of vaccines, and a unanimous Supreme Court decision that makes it easier to win “reverse discrimination” cases.
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: David Marchese for the New York Times: The Interview: Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Th...2025-06-1256 min
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest | Very Heavy ForceThis week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the ominous juxtaposition of Trump sending National Guard troops and Marines to quell mostly peaceful protests in LA with his impending military parade in DC, RFK Jr. firing the entire CDC vaccine advisory board and what this means for the future of vaccines, and a unanimous Supreme Court decision that makes it easier to win “reverse discrimination” cases.
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: David Marchese for the New York Times: The Interview: Ocean Vuong Was Ready to Kill. Th...2025-06-1256 min
Storytime in ParisEp. 56 - Sophie Hardach, “Languages Are Good For Us”GIVEAWAYMy first guest this season is critically-acclaimed author and journalist Sophie Hardach. Sophie’s non-fiction debut, “Languages Are Good For Us,” is about language and how it develops, how it evolves, how its learned, how its used, how it can die or be revived. It’s a wonderfully-researched book that honors the many ways in which we humans have communicated over time and mixes historical fact with Sophie’s personal experiences. Sophie has also generously offered to give away a copy of “Languages Are Good For Us” to one lucky listener. Just listen to find out ho...2023-05-2444 min
Neues vom BuchmarktSophie Hardach: „Unser geteilter Sommer“Ein Urlaub an der österreichisch-ungarischen Grenze setzt Ellas Kindheit ein jähes Ende und reisst die Famiie auseinander. Zwanzig Jahre später versucht sie, herauszufinden, was damals geschah und warum der Fluchtversuch der Familie so tragisch scheiterte.2022-11-2303 min
Language ChatsPage-turners for language lovers: our favourite books about language & travelNeed a recommendation for something new to read?
In this episode, we chat about our favourite books about language, travel or both (and a few books that we’re planning to read soon)! From novels that whisk you away to another place where you find yourself surrounded by new sounds and experiences, to non-fiction reads about how language is changing and where it has come from, let us tell you a bit about the language- and travel-related reads that have inspired, enlightened and delighted us over the last few years.
You’ll find links...2022-04-0436 min
Arts & IdeasThomas MannWould he condemn Hitler? That's the question novelist Thomas Mann was continually asked, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929 following novels such as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. Colm Toibin's new novel The Magician details the differences of opinion between Mann and his brother, and the way his children were part of a bold and experimental younger generation of writers. Anne McElvoy brings Colm Toibin, Sean Williams and Dr Erica Wickerson together for a discussion about Mann's life and writing and the pressure put upon writers to make a public stand on topical issues.Colm...2021-09-2945 min
Savor Into A Award-Winning Full Audiobook During Your Workout.Languages Are Good For Us by Sophie HardachPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452689to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Languages Are Good For Us
Author: Sophie Hardach
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Release date: January 7, 2021
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since the invention of speech. The acclaimed novelist Sophie Hardach – a German native who writes in English – explores languages, and multilingualism, as an expression of human creativity and identity, and a way to connect in an often fractured world – a necessary and import...2021-01-0710h 38
Access Essential Full Audiobooks in History, WorldLanguages Are Good For Us by Sophie HardachPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452689 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Languages Are Good For Us Author: Sophie Hardach Narrator: Laurence Bouvard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 7, 2021 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since the invention of speech. The acclaimed novelist Sophie Hardach – a German native who writes in English – explores languages, and multilingualism, as an expression of human creativity and identity, and a way to connect in an often fractured world – a necessary and im...2021-01-0703 minAccess Essential Full Audiobooks in History, WorldLanguages Are Good For Us by Sophie HardachPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/452689to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Languages Are Good For Us
Author: Sophie Hardach
Narrator: Laurence Bouvard
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Release date: January 7, 2021
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since the invention of speech. The acclaimed novelist Sophie Hardach – a German native who writes in English – explores languages, and multilingualism, as an expression of human creativity and identity, and a way to connect in an often fractured world – a necessary and import...2021-01-0710h 38
NerdetteDon't Distress, De-StressLet Nerdette podcast get you ready for the weekend with a quick gut check after a long election week. Plus an interview with a great author and a new strategy for organizing your thoughts.First, we talk election distractions with Negin Farsad, comedian and host of the Fake The Nation podcast, and Clay Masters, lead political reporter for Iowa Public Radio.Then we talk with author Nick Hornby, author of many wonderful books like High Fidelity, About A Boy, and his newest novel, Just Like You.And finally, we talk with freelance reporter...2020-11-0630 minNerdetteDon't Distress, De-StressLet Nerdette podcast get you ready for the weekend with a quick gut check after a long election week. Plus an interview with a great author and a new strategy for organizing your thoughts.First, we talk election distractions with Negin Farsad, comedian and host of the Fake The Nation podcast, and Clay Masters, lead political reporter for Iowa Public Radio.Then we talk with author Nick Hornby, author of many wonderful books like High Fidelity, About A Boy, and his newest novel, Just Like You.And finally, we talk with freelance reporter...2020-11-0630 minArts & IdeasWriting a Life: Hermione Lee, Daniel Lee and Rachel HolmesBiographers of Tom Stoppard, Sylvia Pankhurst and a little known SS soldier compare notes. How does the process differ if your subject is alive, if their story has already been enshrined in history, if they were active in the Nazi regime? Anne McElvoy talks to three authors about researching and writing a life history and the journeys it has taken them on from a Nazi letter discovered in an armchair, to the play scripts by a living dramatist who fled Nazi occupation in Czechoslovakia and has become part of the British arts establishment to the campaigning travels of a...2020-10-0644 minArts & IdeasMocking power past and present.The German joker Tyll Ulenspiegel. Anne McElvoy with best selling novelist Daniel Kehlmann plus Prof Karen Leeder who has been looking at changing versions of the Dresden bombing.Daniel Kehlmann's new book is called Tyll, translated by Ross Benjamin. A Netflix TV series has been commissioned. His book Measuring The World about mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt became the world's second best-selling novel in 2006.
Professor Karen Leeder teaches at the University of Oxford. She has translated Porzellan: Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt by Durs Grünbein, coming out as Durs Grünbein, Po...2020-02-0544 minArts & IdeasNew angles on post-war Germany and AustriaAnne McElvoy and new ways of understanding post-war Germany and Austria through history, film and literature with Florian Huber, Sophie Hardach, Adam Scovell and Tom Smith. Florian Huber Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself explores a little understood wave of suicides across Germany towards the end of the Third Reich
Sophie Hardach's latest novel called Confession with Blue Horses follows a family living in East Berlin who try to escape to the West.
Adam Scovell is a film critic and author whose new novella is called Mothlight and blogs at Celluloid Wicker Man
Tom Smith teaches German at...2019-07-1745 min
BOOKS WITH JENEp. 4 | ft. Sophie Hardach | The Responsibility of WritersIn this episode of BOOKS WITH JEN, Jen chats with author Sophie Hardach. They discuss the responsibility writers feel: Sophie (an author born in a divided Germany) finds herself tracking her family's stories & other stories of divided nations. Recently she has been travelling with Syrian refugees.2018-07-2600 min