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Winter Book Club: Why You'll Love 'Dune'
Dec 30, 2025As a kid, Ramtin fell in love with Frank Herbert's 1965 epic sci-fi novel, Dune. Today, he joins NPR's Books We’ve Loved crew, Andrew Limbong and B.A. Parker, to make the case for why he thinks you'll...
Winter Book Club: A Christmas Carol
Dec 25, 2025Christmas wasn't always a national shopping spree — or even a day off work. But when Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol in 19th-century London, the holiday went viral. Guests:Leon Litvack, p...
Winter Book Club: The Story of Us?
Dec 18, 2025What if the real story of human history is a story itself? To kick off our winter book club, we talk with bestselling author Tamim Ansary about his book, "The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year His...
Pride, Prejudice, and Peer Pressure
Dec 11, 2025Rund takes Ramtin on a tour of the enduring world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice... and our two hosts make a bet. Guests:John Mullan, professor of English Literature at University College Londo...
The Bitter History of Chocolate
Dec 04, 2025What's better than holiday hot chocolate? If just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, well – that’s by design. Chocolate's big history sweeps across the globe, and today we’re going o...
The Mother of Thanksgiving
Nov 27, 2025On today's show, a Thanksgiving story you might never have heard -- not about Pilgrims or Native people, but instead about a woman who, as civil war loomed, pushed for a shared national holiday she th...
What Happened to Vladimir Alexandrov?
Nov 25, 2025Rund Abdelfatah and Cristina Kim try to unravel the mystery of a Soviet scientist who was helping to spread the word about nuclear winter theory—until he disappeared. This is a peek at the kind of e...
Democracy Dies in a Day
Nov 20, 2025How quickly can a government fall? Chile was once one of Latin America's oldest democracies, but that all changed in a matter of hours after a military coup on September 11, 1973. Some supported the c...
The Creeping Coup
Nov 13, 2025On the surface, the story of Sudan’s war is about two generals vying for power. But it’s also about a vast web of international interests involving the U.S., China, Russia, and the UAE. Today on the ...
Winter is Coming
Nov 06, 2025Late last month, President Trump announced that the United States would be restarting nuclear weapons tests after a break of over 30 years. We’ve since learned that they won’t be the explosive kind of...