Discussions and interviews with authors, scholars, and readers about the power of words, how to use that power to unite people, and what keeps readers interested and entertained enough to gain emotional perspective.
How Literature Can Save the World
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Podcast Overview
Discussions and interviews with authors, scholars, and readers about the power of words, how to use that power to unite people, and what keeps readers interested and entertained enough to gain emotional perspective.
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Publishing Since
10/17/2025
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April 2, 2026
14 - Freedom to Imagine with Daniel Seifert
Daniel Seifert's writing is published in The New York Times, Consequence, and Gulf Coast. His work received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize 2026 anthology, and has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. He lives in Singapore, and is working on a novel.
March 13, 2026
13 - Faithful to the Text with Ibrahim Fawzy
Ibrahim Fawzy, is a literary translator, academic and writer from Egypt. He holds an MA in Comparative Literature. His translations, reviews and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in ArabLit Quarterly, Words Without Borders, The Markaz Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Poetry Ireland Review, among others. He is currently an editorial assistant at Rowayat, and podcasts at New Books Network. In 2023, he finished a six-month mentorship with the British National Centre for Writing. He was a recipient of Culture Resource’s 2023 Wijhat grant. His translation of Khalid Al-Nasrallah’s The White Line of Night won the 2023 English PEN Presents. His translation of Rema Hmoud’s “Glass” has been shortlisted for Deep Vellum’s The Best Literary Translations 2024 Anthology.
February 27, 2026
12 - Social Contracts and Cooking with Mara Karlin
Mara Karlin, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, Brookings Institute Fellow and Director for Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and author of The Inheritance.
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