City Arts & Lectures

Why do people cooperate with one another when they have no (selfish) motivation to do so? ... more

This week, our guest is Padma Lakshmi. As host of shows like Taste the Nation and Top Chef... more

This week, our guest is Salman Rushdie. Over the course of six decades, Rushdie has made a... more

This week, our guest is Richard Misrach — one of the most influential voices in contempora... more

This week,  an encore of our 2023 conversation with legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog. He’... more

This week, our guest is Susan Orlean, the author of The Orchid Thief, The Library Book, an... more

This week, our guest is Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial news reporter at The New York Time... more

 This week, our guest is Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and one of today’... more

Daniel Handler’s sardonic sense of humor and deep pathos have engaged readers across genre... more

Author and cultural critic Jeff Chang's new book is “Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the ... more

This week, the story behind one of the country’s premier dining destinations, Russ & Daugh... more

Arundhati Roy’s internationally best-selling novels include The God of Small Things and Th... more

Our guest today is Bill McKibben, an activist and author at the forefront of the movement ... more

Our guest today is Samin Nosrat, chef, cookbook author, and television host. Along with he... more

Our guest today is Mary Roach, a science writer who’s often drawn to taboo, or simply sque... more

We’re going back into the archives for a conversation with theoretical physicist Brian Gre... more

This week…. An encore of our 2019 program with Jeff Tweedy, founding member of the band Wi... more

This is an encore presentation of a 2022 broadcast.  Patti Smith is a writer, performer, a... more

This week…. An encore of our 2016 conversation with legendary musician Paul Simon.  Paul S... more

This week, our guest is poet Natalie Diaz in conversation with essayist and author Hilton ... more

Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, is one of today’s leading ... more

This week, we're going into the archives for a conversation with Bruce Springsteen, record... more

Alejandro Heredia is an Afro-Dominican working at the intersection of literature and activ... more

Eve Ewing is a professor at the University of Chicago and the author of four books includi... more

We’re going back into the archives for a conversation with David Mitchell, recorded in 202... more

A conversation about the evolving world of psychedelics. While scientific breakthroughs co... more

Shoshana von Blanckensee is a novelist whose debut work, Girls Girls Girls, explores comin... more

Shelley Sella is a board-certified OB-GYN who recently retired after decades as an abortio... more