EPISODE 1525: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Umut Ozkirimli, the author of CANCELLED offers a leftist alternative to what he sees as the intolerance of "woke" politics

EPISODE 1524: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jessi Kneeland, the author of BODY NEUTRAL, about her revolutionary new guide to overcoming body image issues

EPISODE 1523: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jared Fishman, the author of FIRE ON THE LEVEE, about the New Orleans police murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina

EPISODE 1522: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of WE CAN HEROES, Paul Burston, about his survival story as a prominent British gay activist, journalist and novelist

EPISODE 1521: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Kate Strasdin, the author of THE DRESS DIARY OF MRS ANNE SYKES, about fashion, fabric and femininity in 19th century England

EPISODE 1520: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Matthew Clavin, the author of SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM, about the way in which African American slaves were inspired by the American symbols of independence in their fight for true freedom

EPISODE 1519: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Siena Sterling, the author of THE GAME SHE PLAYS CAN TURN DEADLY. about twisted plots, twisted people and twisted writers like Patricia Highsmith and Fyodor Dostoievski

EPISODE 1518: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of the ITALIAN SQUAD, Paul Moses, about the true story of the early 20th century New York cops who fought the rise of the Mafia

EPISODE 1517: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE PALESTINE LABORATORY, Antony Loewenstein, about how, in his view, Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world

EPISODE 1516: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of THE HEARTBEAT OF THE WILD, David Quammen, about how to write with both appropriate spiritual reverence and scientific accuracy about the wilderness

EPISODE 1515: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Jordan Crandall, the author of AUTODRIVE, about the imminent age of superintelligence in which we will won't be able to distinguish man and machine

EPISODE 1514: In this regular weekly show with THAT WAS THE WEEK newsletter author Keith Teare, Andrew and Keith discuss the upcoming Apple virtual reality headset, the supposed investment boom in AI and Elon Musk's ambition of reinventing Twitter as X

EPISODE 1513: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Stephen Games, the publisher of BookLaunch Quarterly & EnvelopeBooks, about the Big Book industry, the importance of rigorous editing and why literary agents serve no real purpose

EPISODE 1512: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Alex Ryvchin, author of THE 7 DEADLY MYTHS, about antisemitism from the time of Christ to Kanye West and the Ashburton Army

EPISODE 1511: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Chad Williams, the author of THE WOUNDED WORLD, about W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World World

EPISODE 1510: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Eliot Ackerman, the author of the novel HALCYON, which imagines an America where Al Gore becomes President and there is technology that can resurrect dead people

EPISODE 1508: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the CEO and President of Democracy Forward, Skye Perryman, about the existential crisis of American Democracy and what we can do to save it

EPISODE 1508: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Andrew Krivak, author of LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF HORSES, about war, language, memory and why, in his opinion, AI algorithms like ChatGPT will never understand beauty

EPISODE 1507: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to David Blake, the co-founder and CEO of BookClub, about the resiliency of the physical book and why he is cautiously optimistic about the impact of AI on storytelling

EPISODE 1506: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of CARRY STRONG, Stephanie Kramer, about her empowered approach to navigating pregnancy and work

EPISODE 1505: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Istanbul based political scientist Soli Özel about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s return to power in Turkey

EPISODE 1503: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of OUR TRIBAL FUTURE, David Samson, about how to channel our foundational human instincts into a force for good

EPISODE 1503: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks with ACCELERATED MINDS author, Neil Seeman, about the fascinating, inspiring and often destructive impulses that drive the entrepreneurial brain

EPISODE 1502: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the author of LOST SON, Brett Forrest, about Billy Reilly, a young American sucked into the FBI's secret war in Russia

EPISODE 1501: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks with ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR author Elise Loehnen on the price women pay for not embracing the seven deadly sins