Global Politics

Javier C. Hernández and Xu Xi on Hong Kong’s Battle with Beijing

In this episode, New York Times reporter Javier C. Hernández and fiction writer and essayist Xu Xi talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast...

Americans Abroad: Deborah Landau and Mathangi Subramanian on Expat Writing

In this episode, poet Deborah Landau and novelist Mathangi Subramanian talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan...

Jasmin Darznik and Dina Nayeri on the 40th Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, Iranian-American novelists and memoirists Jasmin Darznik and Dina Nayeri talk to...

James Traub and Margot Livesey: Decency vs. Moral Weakness

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, writers James Traub and Margot Livesey discuss the idea of morally weak characters...

At the Intersection of Nationalism, Religion, and Social Media

Earlier this month, mob attacks on Sri Lanka’s minority Muslim community prompted a state of emergency in that country, and a temporary...

Anti-Semitism and the Authoritarian Playbook

Recently, the Polish Senate passed a law that would criminalize any suggestions of complicity by the Polish state in Nazi war crimes,...

All the President’s Shakespeare

In episode six of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk political betrayal past and present with novelist...

Fiction/Non/Fiction: We’re All Russian, Now

In this episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell discuss Russian-American political machinations with...