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For readers who are listeners, for listeners looking for something to read—this feed includes book discussions and conversations with authors from across the Slate Podcast network.
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ICYMI: AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Author...
And—surprise, surprise—Amazon isn’t doing nearly enough about it.
46 min
177
A Word: Wrong from the Beginning
Writer Michael Harriot says white-washing Black history is a desperate effort that’s bound to fail.
31 min
178
Dear Prudence: My Partner’s Relationship With H...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by romance author Tia Williams.
32 min
179
Mom & Dad: Growing Up In Public
Slate’s parenting podcast on helping kids grow up in public.
37 min
180
Slate Money - Optimal Illusions: The False Prom...
Coco Krumme joins Slate Money to discuss the false promise of optimization.
37 min
181
Political Gabfest: The Last Politician
Author Franklin Foer discusses the first two years in President Joe Biden’s White House; the war in Ukraine slogs on and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wades in; and higher education is in trouble.
53 min
182
Mom & Dad: The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles...
Slate’s parenting podcast interviews the team behind The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles.
30 min
183
Future Tense Fiction: Welcome to the A.I. Haunt...
On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, Janelle Shane discusses her short story “The Skeleton Crew.”
61 min
184
Mom & Dad: Accountable: The True Story of a Rac...
Slate’s parenting podcast interviews award-winning journalist, Dashka Slater, on her new book, Accountable.
37 min
185
ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End...
How the changing financial incentives of the internet make loud and unabashed thirst more fraught.
34 min
186
Slate Money: "Best Things First" by Bjorn Lomborg
A book provides a dozen ways to help the world’s poorest people. Will they work?
46 min
187
Amicus: Citizen Justice: The Environmental Lega...
Judge Margaret M. McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on her book about a Supreme Court Justice, public advocate and conservation champion.
53 min
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Slate Money: "Anansi's Gold" by Yepoka Yeebo
This one goes out to anyone who has tried to help a prince get his money
43 min
189
Gabfest Reads: Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver’s latest draws inspiration from Charles Dickens to tell the truth of her people.
28 min
190
Outward: Red, White & Really Bad
A gay romance among the ruling class seems to have been created for straight people.
61 min
191
Mom & Dad: Avidly Reads Screen Time
Slate’s parenting podcast on the moral panic over screen time.
20 min
192
Amicus: The Family Roe
Joshua Prager on his epic investigation of “An American Story”: the complex life and family background of Norma McCorvey (AKA Jane Roe in Roe v Wade).
51 min
193
Mom & Dad: Raising Empowered Athletes
Slate’s parenting podcast on keeping your eye on the ball.
28 min
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How To!: Generation Dread: Finding Purpose In a...
Dr. Britt Wray on turning anxiety into action.
28 min
195
The Waves: Hollywood is On Strike. Let’s Burn i...
Hollywood’s time of reckoning has been all talk. The ongoing strikes are proof of that.
39 min
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Future Tense Fiction: Could a Robot Be Your Dog...
In the July episode of Future Tense Fiction, Andrew Silverman discusses his short story “Furgen.”
63 min
197
Amicus: The Fear of Too Much Justice
Stephen Bright on all the ways America condemns people of color, the poor, and the sick, to a second class justice system from the Supreme Court in down.
47 min
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A Word: The Rise of Post-Obama Racism
21 min
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Slate Money: Wal-Mart v. Amazon: The Battle for...
Why Amazon is actually bad at disrupting businesses, the state of the retail apocalypse, and Puerto Rico’s tax dodging crypto bros.
53 min
200
Political Gabfest Reads: How the British Empire...
David Grann’s The Wager tells the harrowing story of a shipwrecked crew in 1741 that had to tell their stories to save their lives.
25 min