Video & Audio

Ayad Akhtar and Daniel Kehlmann discuss the intersection of art, technology, and the human experience.

Anne Applebaum and George Packer with The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, on what lies ahead for America’s democratic experiment.

Agnes Mueller looks at contemporary German–Jewish fiction by young post-Holocaust-memory writers.

The former longtime editor of "Foreign Affairs" surveys impending challenges to European security and explores how they can be addressed.

Adam Shatz is at work on a sweeping chronicle of the postwar Black music avant-garde.

Mona El-Naggar’s Academy project, “Behind the Byline,” offers an authoritative account of modern women in the Arab world.

Cultural theorist Sianne Ngai is writing a book of essays that explores the risks of recreating and lingering in “wrong” ways of thinking.

Historian Abhishek Kaicker is at work on a biography of Anand Ran “Mukhlis” (1699-1751), the most important Hindu intellectual of the Mughal Empire.

Historian Daniel Jütte is working on a new book on the history of locomotion in early modern Europe.

Writer Brian Evenson is continuing work on a novel about the collision of Mormon ideas and ideals with European culture -- and schizophrenia.