With his signature humor, author Charles Yu deconstructs the lecture genre and by doing so revealsprofound insights into what it means to be human.

From the 2023 Portland Book Festival on the relationships between humans and animals, and on our ideas about the meaning of animals.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, this episode features poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil at Portland Arts & Lectures.

Dive into Verselandia! Portlands annual youth poetry slam championship, with performances from 2023s event and interviews with this years hopefuls.

This week, we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month with a conversation from the 2023 Portland Book Festival featuring Jane Hirshfield and Major Jackson with moderator Matthew Zapruder.

April is National Poetry Month, and we are celebrating with a collection of some of our favorite poetry moments over the years at Literary Arts.

Former nun Karen Armstrong makes a deeply felt argument rooted in history, and a lifetime of learning, and drawing on religions from all over the world.

Oregon Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani leads a conversation between 2020 Oregon Book Award winners Kesha Ajose Fisher and Ashley Toliver.

Ruth Ozeki, the featured author for Everybody Reads 2023, speaks about reading, writing, and the power of storytelling in her metafictional novel A Tale for the Time Being.

Naomi Alderman discusses her novel The Future, about friends who plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech billionaires threatening it.