US Politics

Writing About Mass IncarcerationAcross Genres

Poet and memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts and novelist Zachary Lazar join V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell for the first of two...

All Fiction is Crime Fiction

In this episode, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell examine the omnipresent American comfort narrative of mystery and crime fiction....

Gun Violence, #NeverAgain and the Power of Teenage Protest

In mid-February, 17 people—students and adults—were shot at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the aftermath,...

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,...

A Whole New Kind of Obscenity?

In episode 9 of Fiction/Non/Fiction, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk with Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post Book...

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...