City Arts & Lectures

Updated: 25 May 2025 • 356 episodes
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Since 1980, City Arts & Lectures has presented onstage conversations with outstanding figures in literature, politics, criticism, science, and the performing arts, offering the most diverse perspectives about ideas and values. City Arts & Lectures programs can be heard on more than 130 public radio stations across the country and wherever you get your podcasts. The broadcasts are co-produced with KQED 88.5 FM in San Francisco. Visit CITYARTS.NET for more info.

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Long before he directed Wicked, In The Heights, or the groundbreaking film Crazy Rich Asians, Jon M. Chu was a movie-obsessed first-generation Chinese American helping at his parents’ Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley and forever facing the cultural identity crisis endemic to children of immigrants. Growing up on th

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19 May 2025 • EN

Anna Malaika Tubbs

Our guest today is Anna Malaika Tubbs, a multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity.  She is the author of “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation” and the just-published “Erased: What American Patria

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11 May 2025 • EN

Ross Gay

Ross Gay is a writer with a mission: to help readers explore the beautiful complexities of joy, gratitude, and delight.  In his essays and poetry, Gay brings his overflowing kindness and relentless eye for details to community gardens, the lives of Black people, the artistry of basketball, and much more. He is the auth

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04 May 2025 • EN

Alec Karakatsanis

Alec Karakatsanis is a lawyer, writer, and the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps.  He graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, and served as a deputy public defender in the District of Columbia.  His books are "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustic

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04 May 2025 • EN

Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara is a journalist, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She began her journalism career as a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal and later launched, edited and wrote for the business section of the New Yorker’s website.  Her latest book, Searches, is a work of journalism and memoir about

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27 Apr 2025 • EN

Encore: Ocean Vuong

This is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired in August of 2023.  We've selected the encore to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the turning point in the Vietnamese diaspora of which Ocean Vuong is a part.    Ocean Vuong‘s exquisitely crafted poetry and prose ask perennial and pressin

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