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The linguist, lexicographer, writer, and technologist Sarah Ogilvie, a professor at Oxford University, discusses her new book The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English University (Knopf, 2023), with Joseph Planta.

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The acclaimed performer of stage and screen R.H. Thomson discusses his new book By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families (Alfred E. Knopf, 2023), with Joseph Planta.

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The acclaimed and bestselling author and poet Michael Crummey discusses his new novel The Adversary (Knopf Canada, 2023), with Joseph Planta.

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The infectious diseases doctor, academic, and broadcaster Dr Chris van Tulleken discusses his bestselling book Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023), with Joseph Planta.

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The acclaimed author Joshua Whitehead discusses his new work of non-fiction Making Love with the Land (Knopf, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

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The writer and broadcaster Britt Wray discusses her new book Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (Knopf, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

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The writer and critic Martha Schabas discusses her new novel My Face in the Light (Knopf, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

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George Gershwin's An American in Paris has been associated with dance ever since it inspired the 1951 Gene Kelly film, so who better to bring it to the musical theatre stage than the renowned ballet dancer, choreographer and now director Christopher Wheeldon.

Also, with several Australian companies currently presenting works by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, we learn about the lives of these two men and their belief in the revolutionary potential of the theatre.

The author and poet George Elliott Clarke discusses his memoir Where Beauty Survived: An Africadian Memoir (Knopf, 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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The historian John Boyko discusses his new book The Devil's Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War (Knopf, 2021), with Joseph Planta.

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This week, on Inside Julia’s Kitchen, host Todd Schulkin talks to Knopf senior editor Lexy Bloom about People Who Love to Eat Are Always the Best People, the newly released, first-ever authoritative collection of Julia quotes. Plus, Lexy shares her Julia Moment.

Image courtesy of Lexy Bloom.

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In this episode, Danielle shares Erika L. Sánchez’s “Letter from New York.” Talking points include, well, New York, obviously, the epistolary form, our flooding basement, and poet Richard Hugo literally dropping bombs on five-year-old poet Charles Simic in Belgrade.