IN CONTRAST PODCAST

Stephanie Houtzeel is a mezzo-soprano who is currently a member of the Vienna State Opera. Pianist John Milbauer is a Steinway artist and teacher at the…

Episode 3: The Tyranny of Emotion: Passion instead of accuracy. This is part of the seven-episode In Contrast podcast special “What’s Wrong with American…

Brooke Hauser is the newly appointed editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Matthew Zapruder is a poet, editor and translator. Why Poetry is an impassioned call to return to reading poetry and an argument for poetry’s…

Arshia Sattar, author of Ramayana: An Illustrated Retelling, explores the Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic poem and its importance to today and cultures…

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her 2013 novel, A Tale for Time-Being won the L.A. Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for…

Forrest Gander’s book Core Samples of the World was a both Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle finalist. His new work of poems, Be With,…

Carmen Maria Machado is a writer of fiction, essays and criticism. Her debut collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties, was a National Book…

Dr. Rafael Campo is a poet, essayist and physician. Campo practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical…

Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. His novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Diaz…