Happy New Year! Enjoy these interviews with some of our favorite authors from 2022:

• Imani Perry, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, shares the insights she gleaned about U.S. history and culture from her travels in the South from South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco, 2022), winner of the National Book Award for non-fiction.
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician and author of several books including The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene, and his latest, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Scribner, 2022), talks about his new book that explores the new world of cellular medicine.
• Peniel Joseph, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Basic Books, 2022), talks about his new book that argues that since 2008, America has been experiencing a new Reconstruction, equal to the period following the Civil War and to the mid-20th century civil rights movement.
• Lydia Millet, climate novelist and author of several books, including Dinosaurs: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), joins to talk about her new book and how to find hope amid existential dread brought on by climate change.
• Andy Borowitz, author, comedian, and creator of The New Yorker's “Borowitz Report,” a satirical news column, and the author of Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber (Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022), talks about his new book that skewers politicians of the past 50 years plus shares humorous insights into some current politics.

These interviews were lightly edited for timing and rebroadcast; the original web versions are available here:

Imani Perry's Journey Across the American South (Feb 4, 2022)

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Medicine at the Cellular Level (Oct 28, 2022)

Today's Reconstruction (Sep 6, 2022)

A Climate Novelist on Hope and Dread (Oct 11, 2022)

Andy Borowitz's 'Profiles in Ignorance' (Oct 26, 2022)