Guest host Kenji Jasper fills in for Leonard today. He'll talk to David A. Harris, who argues that racial profiling does not prevent crime or help catch criminals. Then, as part of our special Summer Reading Series on underappreciated literature, James Wood looks at the work of Italo Svevo, a man hailed as “the Italian Proust” when his novel Confessions of Zeno was published in 1923. Belgrade native Natasha Radojcic tells us about her new novel, You Don’t Have to Live Here. And Tsuyoshi Hasegawa revisits Japan’s surrender at the end of WWII with a critical look at the roles played by the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan.
Profiles in Injustice
David Harris argues that racial profiling is not only a threat to civil rights, it’s a bad crime-fighting strategy. In Profiles in Injustice, he presents statistical data that undermine the usefulness of racial profiling as a way of stopping criminals.
Music:
“New York’s Finest” and “The Water” ...
Music:
“New York’s Finest” and “The Water” ...
Summer Reading Series: Italo Svevo
Literary critic James Wood pays tribute to Italo Svevo in today’s edition our special Summer Reading Series on underappreciated literature. In 1907, Svevo hired an English tutor, who turned out to be a young, unpublished James Joyce. And it’s rumored that Svevo inspired Joyce’s legendary character Leopold Bloom. Svevo's masterpiece, ...
You Don’t Have to Live Here
Natasha Radojcic tells us about her new novel You Don’t Have to Live Here, a coming-of-age story about a mischievous girl who travels with her family from Yugoslavia to Cuba to Greece, and eventually, to New York.
Music:
“Crash” composed by Howard Shore and prepared by Simon ...
Music:
“Crash” composed by Howard Shore and prepared by Simon ...
Racing the Enemy
In Racing the Enemy, history professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa studies the months leading up to Japan's surrender at the end of WWII. Unlike most histories of the surrender, this book offers a very international approach—it looks at the roles played by the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan.
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