Lapham's Quarterly: The Podcast

Klingon. Esperanto. Dothraki. Dive into the strange and fascinating world of language invention with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark, linguist Arika Okrent, and an array of language inventors and enthusiasts.

LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark delves into the creation of DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English, with LQ contributor Simon Winchester and DARE chief editor Joan Hall.

Andy Zaltzman, co-host of The Bugle podcast, also known as the world's leading audio newspaper for a visual world, came by the LQ offices to read passages from LQ about some of antiquity's looniest despots. Featuring, Nero and his maniacal

David Javerbaum, former head writer of The Daily Show and current mortal secretary to God, talks about God's latest book, the hilarious "telleth-all" The Last Testament.

Ever heard of one of world literature's most famous heroes, Amir Hamza? If not, you're not alone, and LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark speaks with Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translator of The Adventures of Amir Hamza, about this tremendous figure and

Author and translator Peter Ackroyd talks with Aidan Flax-Clark about his new retelling of Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and discusses a little bit about his most recent London history, London Under.

Historian, radio star, and newest contributor to The Daily Show, Sarah Vowell reads from LQ's Future issue: Mark Twain's hilarious "Earthquake Almanac," William Safire's preparatory presidential space-disaster speech, and Futurist extraordi

John Crowley talks about his classic novel Little, Big with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark in the second part of their conversation.

Novelist John Crowley talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about why the future is disappearing from people's imaginations and why it's being replaced by the past.

Marc Maron, standup comedian and host of the WTF podcast, talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about reading, why his books might be bullying him, and why you can't go wrong with a good mac-and-cheese recipe.

Columbia Journalism Review managing editor Brent Cunningham comes on to talk with LQ editor Elias Altman about the trials and tribulations of the modern food-reform movement, and his essay, "Pastoral Romance," which appears in the new Lapha

LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark talks with novelist Jason Goodwin about Turkish food, the delights of eating in the Ottoman empire, and his series of historical mystery novels, with their main character, the eunuch investigator Yashim, solving c

Author of "The Shadow Scholar," Ed Dante (pseudonym) talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about his career in the college-paper-writing business and the problems in American higher education.

Liev Schreiber reads three excerpts from the pages of the Quarterly, all on the theme of jobs. The actor takes on Anton Chekhov, Salman Rushdie, and Buffalo Bill.

Philip Connors came by the LQ offices to talk with editor Elias Altman about his book Fire Season and the essay adapted from it that appears in the new Lapham's Quarterly issue, Lines of Work.