William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.
Mae Ngai is the author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
Guest: Adam Hochshild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Ruby Lal, author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan.
Peter Ross Range, author of 1924: The Year That Made Hitler.
Matthew D. Hockenos is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Professor in 20th- Century History at Skidmore College. The author of A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past. And his latest Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” by Will Arbery, directed by Bill English, at San Francisco Playhouse through March 5, 2022.
Joseph Hansen (1923-2004) was a pioneer of private eye fiction, whose main character, Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator, was the first gay protagonist in the detective field published by a mainstream house. At the time his first Brandstetter book was published, in 1970, being gay was illegal in forty-nine of the fifty states. Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff interviewed Joseph Hansen on June 14, 1990 upon publication of the eleventh novel in the series. This interview has not been heard since its initial airing thirty years ago, and has never seen the light of day in its entirety.
KPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Swept Away” at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theater through March 6, 2022.
KPFA theater critic Richard Wolinsky reviews the national tour company of “Freestyle Love Supreme” at ACT’s Geary Theater through February 13, 2022.