Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpur hour. Here's where we're headed this week.

As summer winds down, we look back at the most widely acclaimed voices that define the year.

Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Avut Toha talks to me about war poems

on the anguish in Gaza.

I think for any writer or journalist

to win a Pulitzer Prize is a satisfaction,

but this satisfaction is lacking

because the stories that I wrote about

in the past year and have been happening and happening again.

Then,

Breakout star and Oscar winner Mikey Madison on letting go of imposter syndrome.

Like, why did he choose me?

I kind of feel like all my dreams are coming through true a little bit,

which is like, I don't know, maybe there's woods somewhere and I'll knock on it.

Knock on it.

Plus, with Iran in the spotlight, one of the most acclaimed chefs of the year,

Iranian-born Nassim Ali Khan, talks about her contemporary spin on the delicious Persian cuisine I grew up on.

When you cook, you need an audience.

You cannot just cook, cook for the heck of it.

You need an audience, and that just cook, cook for the heck of it. You need an audience.

And that audience, how they receive the food, completes the circle. And vaccine conspiracies in

Eureka Day. It stars Jessica Hecht and Bill Irwin on the play that took the Tony Award for Best

...