Chapter & Verse Podcast
1) C&V #8: Jenna Wortham with Nadia Ellis on race, gender and social media in the age of Trump
The New York Times Magazine's Jenna Wortham -- one of the most stimulating writers on technology, media, race, sexuality, and anything else she puts her mind to -- in conversation with Nadia Ellis, a ...Show More
2) C&V #7: Hua Hsu & Jeff Chang on Music, Race & the Craft of Writing
Hua Hsu (The New Yorker) and Jeff Chang (We Gon' Be Alright) take on a set of urgent questions: how is it that, as American culture becomes increasingly 'colorized,', its politics get increasingly pol...Show More
3) C&V Ep #6: Namwali Serpell on "The Sack"
Novelist Namwali Serpell reads from, and explores the meaning of, her short story “The Sack,” winner of the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing.
4) C&V Episode #5: Adam Hochschild on the moral drama of the Spanish Civil War
Historian Adam Hochschild discusses Spain in Our Hearts, his mesmerizing chronicle of the Spanish Civil War and the three thousand Americans who — in defiance of their own country — crossed the Atlant...Show More
C&V Episode #5: Adam Hochschild on the moral drama of the Spanish Civil War
49:30 | Jun 8th, 2016
5) C&V Episode #4: Mark Bittman on Writing and the Food Revolution
Mark Bittman -- a key player in 'how we eat today' -- reflects on how he became the unique writer he is: both a writer of popular cookbooks and a forceful advocate for changing our food system. In the...Show More
6) C&V Episode #3: Katrina Dodson on Clarice Lispector, "Brazil's Kafka"
In this episode, Katrina Dodson reads two Clarice Lispector short stories in their entirety — the fable-like "A Chicken" and the intricate "The Smallest Woman in the World" — and reflects on how she t...Show More
7) C&V Episode #2: The Bible at Its Most Unorthodox
Here we discuss -- with Robert Alter, the Hebrew Bible's most esteemed translator and commentator -- the Bible at its most unorthodox: the two books that never mention the word God (the Book of Esther...Show More