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On Required Reading we talk with writers and readers about the texts — old and new — that influence or express their worldview.
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Arash Azizi joins Morten Høi Jensen about his recent Liberties essay "Irandoost, or Confessions of a Patriot"
David A. Bell joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his essay from Liberties' spring issue "The Life and Death of the Book Review."
A.E. Stallings discusses her recent essay "How Poems Happen (For Me)" with Morten Høi Jensen.
Abbas Milani and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Milani's recent Liberties essay "Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma"
Yahia Lababidi discusses his recent essay "Secretaries of Silence" with Morten Høi Jensen. The essay is about the relationship between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton.
James Wolcott and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wolcott's essay "Gloire Days" and Trump's obsession with Mar-a-Lago.
Dan Sinykin and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Close Reading For The Twentieth Century, the book that Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winnant edited and which was published recently by Princeton University Press.
Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus discuss their respective books The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain and Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art.
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