Politics and Prose

Upcoming live streams

Judith Viorst — Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered

Scheduled for 5/13/25, 11:00 PM

Climate Writing, Climate Action - with Kate Woodworth, Mike Tidwell and Jim Lardner

Scheduled for 5/15/25, 11:00 PM

Mark Whitaker — The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America

Scheduled for 5/17/25, 7:00 PM

David. A. Kessler — Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine- with Dan Diamond

Scheduled for 5/18/25, 7:00 PM

Carl Hiaasen — Fever Beach

Scheduled for 5/18/25, 9:00 PM

Jonathan Capehart — Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home - with Susan Rice

Scheduled for 5/19/25, 11:00 PM

Past live streams

Christina Li — The Manor of Dreams - with Martha Anne Toll

369 viewsStreamed 3 days ago

Martha Anne Toll — Duet for One - with Anne Midgette

316 viewsStreamed 5 days ago

John B. King — Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives - with Denise Forte

551 viewsStreamed 6 days ago

Yepoka Yeebo — Anansi's Gold - with Marcia Chatelain

444 viewsStreamed 8 days ago

Jon Hickey — Big Chief - with Ian Shapira

433 viewsStreamed 10 days ago

Michael Luo — Strangers in the Land- with with Jia Lynn Yang

1.7K viewsStreamed 11 days ago

Videos

Why the Department of Education Matters (with John B. King)

215 views4 days ago

José Andrés — Change the Recipe- with Guy Raz

320 views9 days ago

Dr. Judith Joseph — High Functioning- with Glory Edim and Talia Cadet

235 views11 days ago

Corinna Vallianatos & Eric Puchner— Origin Stories & Dream State (FULL)

290 views13 days ago

Blake Gopnik — The Maverick's Museum

255 views2 weeks ago

Dan Nadel — Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

845 views2 weeks ago

Pulitzer Prize Winners

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Percival Everett — James - with Ron Charles

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14K views11 months ago

Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black — COMBEE- with Dr. Paul Gardullo

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737 views1 year ago

Kathleen DuVal — Native Nations: A Millennium in North America - with Armand Lione

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2.4K viewsStreamed 1 year ago

Benjamin Nathans — To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause - with Andrew Weiss

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1.1K views8 months ago

Ilyon Woo — Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

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7.3K viewsStreamed 2 years ago

Nathan Thrall and Abed Salama — A Day in the Life of Abed Salamay - with Ishaan Tharoor

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3K views1 year ago

P&P Climate

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson — What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

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968 views6 months ago

Todd Stern — Landing the Paris Climate Agreement - with Juliet Eilperin

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403 views6 months ago

Tom Steyer — Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War

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1.7K viewsStreamed 11 months ago

Dana R. Fisher — Saving Ourselves - with Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali

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639 views1 year ago

Jeff Goodell — The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

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6.4K viewsStreamed 1 year ago

Stephen Markley — The Deluge - with Robbie Orvis

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2.7K viewsStreamed 2 years ago

Booker Prize Winners

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Samantha Harvey — Orbital - with Jamie Quatro

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2.2K viewsStreamed 1 month ago

Paul Lynch — Prophet Song - with Ron Charles

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7.8K views1 year ago

Margaret Atwood, "The Testaments"

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28K views5 years ago

George Saunders, "Lincoln In The Bardo"

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21K views8 years ago

Paul Beatty, "The Sellout"

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15K views10 years ago

Marlon James "A Brief History of Seven Killings"

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15K views10 years ago

P&P Children & Teens

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This collection spotlights children's and YA authors who have worked with our incredible Children & Teens department.

Sabaa Tahir - Heir - in Conversation with Elizabeth Acevedo

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644 views6 months ago

Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham - Lunar New Year Love Story - with Ellen Oh

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630 views1 year ago

Carl Hiaasen — Wrecker

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823 views1 year ago

P&P Live! Tony Perry & Alexis Bunten | Keepunumuk

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455 viewsStreamed 1 year ago

P&P Live! Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton | The Enchanted Symphony | A Family Storytime

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3.4K viewsStreamed 1 year ago

P&P Live! Julio Anta & Jacoby Salcedo - Frontera - with Ray Terciero

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460 viewsStreamed 1 year ago

P&P True Crime

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David Grann, "Killers Of The Flower Moon"

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53K views8 years ago

P&P Live! Becky Cooper | WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE with Ron Chernow

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1.8K viewsStreamed 4 years ago

John Carreyrou, "Bad Blood"

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527K views6 years ago

Casey Cep, "Furious Hours"

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8.3K views5 years ago

Sarah Weinman, "The Real Lolita" (w/ Laura Lippman)

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7.5K views6 years ago

Mark Bowden, "The Last Stone"

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2.4K views5 years ago

Reproductive Health

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Rebecca Little & Colleen Long — I'm Sorry for My Loss- with Tamara Keith

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843 viewsStreamed 4 months ago

Dr. Curtis Boyd, MD, Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN — We Choose To - with Melissa Fowler

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1.5K viewsStreamed 6 months ago

Jessica Valenti — Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

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1.8K views6 months ago

Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer — The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

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1.3K viewsStreamed 10 months ago

Shefali Luthra — Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America - with Ali Vitali

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566 views9 months ago

Gabrielle Stanley Blair — Ejaculate Responsibly - with Charlotte Clymer

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1.6K views1 year ago

P&P Mystery and Crime Fiction

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A collection of the best mystery, crime, and thriller writers who have visited Politics and Prose.

Walter Mosley — Farewell, Amethystine

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1.5K viewsStreamed 10 months ago

George Pelecanos, "The Man Who Came Uptown"

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3.3K views6 years ago

Ann Cleeves and Louise Penny on writing, mystery, and friendship

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53K views6 years ago

Dennis Lehane, "Since We Fell"

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5.8K views7 years ago

Laura Lippman, "Lady in the Lake"

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2.6K views5 years ago

James Ellroy, "This Storm"

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12K views5 years ago

P&P Science Fiction & Fantasy

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A Collection of some of the leading authors in sci-fi & fantasy.

N.K. Jemisin, "The City We Became" (Full)

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4.4K views4 years ago

Cixin Liu, "Ball Lightning"

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51K views6 years ago

Charlie Jane Anders reads from "The City in the Middle of the Night"

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1.3K views6 years ago

Ted Chiang, "Exhalation" & Karen Russell, "Orange World"

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9.7K views5 years ago

Jeff VanderMeer, "Borne"

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6.5K views7 years ago

Samantha Shannon — The Dark Mirror (Bone Season #5) - with Sabaa Tahir

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772 viewsStreamed 2 months ago