TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2023

06/07/2023 48 min
TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2023

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Episode Synopsis

In this special episode of The World Next Week, Rosa Brooks, the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, joins Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they’re looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they’re enjoying this summer.
 
Mentioned on the Podcast
 
Carla’s Picks
 
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer
 
Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
 
Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”




Bob’s Picks
 
Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Douglas Smith, The Story of a Life
 
Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
 
“Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift,” Conversations with Tyler




Rosa’s Picks
 
Alex Mar, Seventy Times Seven: A True Story Of Murder And Mercy
 
George Black, Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
 
John Linson and Taylor Sheridan, “Yellowstone”



Additional Books, Podcasts, Shows, and Games Mentioned on the Podcast
 
John Adams, Doctor Atomic
 
Edward Berger, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
 
Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide”
 
Joan Didion, The White Album
 
Craig Mazin, “The Last of Us”
 
Pong
 
Sam Shaw, “Manhattan”
 
Frank Spotnitz, “The Man in the High Castle”
 
Fred Zinnemann, “From Here to Eternity”
 
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