TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2024

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This special episode of The World Next Week features a summerlong feast of reading, watching, and listening treats. Deborah Amos, the Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence at Princeton University and a former international correspondent for National Public Radio, joins CFR’s TWNW hosts Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins to discuss good reads they recommend, books they are looking forward to reading, and other entertainment they are enjoying this summer. Mentioned on the Podcast Bob’s Picks Elizabeth Kolbert, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European Carla’s Picks Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq Peter Pomerantsev, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler Deborah’s Picks Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy Additional Books, Films, Podcasts, Shows and More Mentioned on the Podcast Books Russell Baker, Growing Up Ron Chernow, Grant Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Roy Stewart, The Places In Between Films Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel James Bridges, The China Syndrome George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck. Alex Garland, Civil War Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields Richard Linklater, Hit Man Sidney Lumet, Network Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men Peter Weir, The Year of Living Dangerously Podcasts Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, The Rest is Politics, Goalhanger Jon Ronson, Things Fell Apart, BBC Radio 4 Television Shows Jez Scharf, Bodkin David Simon, The Wire Aaron Sorkin, The Newsroom Other The Reckoning Project “Watch the U.S. Stall on Climate Change for 12 Years,” Vox For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2024

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0:00.0	Welcome to the World Next Week's special summer reading episode.
0:05.4	I'm Bob McMahon.
0:06.4	And I'm Carlyan Robbins.
0:19.7	Every year we look forward to discussing books we've read and plan to read as well as other media we recommend for what we hope are these slightly more relaxed summer months.
0:28.6	And joining us today from Berlin for this summer reading podcast special is our old friend Deborah Amos.
0:34.8	Deb is a professor, author, and of course, an award-winning international correspondent
0:38.8	for NPR, where her coverage in the Middle East and refugee issues is unparalleled. She's now the
0:44.3	Ferris Professor of Journalism and Residence at Princeton University. Deb, welcome back to the show.
0:50.0	Thank you, and I'm former NPR, but a small quibble. I am a professor.
0:55.2	You will always be NPR in my heart. Thank you.
0:59.2	And just a reminder to listeners that our summer reading show, which we do annually,
1:03.8	does not feature the work of our CFR colleagues, although they are prolific and distinguished.
1:09.4	And we do highlight CFR publications all year long
1:11.7	on our usual programming. Today, we'd like to spotlight those authors and creators outside of
1:16.6	CFR. So Deb is our guest. You get first dibs on sharing a book you've read that you want us to
1:22.0	know more about. So the first thing I'm going to admit is I listen to books and I do it a lot. I mean, when I have to
1:28.6	underline, of course I don't, but for the most part, I listen to them. So that is also in my
1:33.1	calculations. What I did over the last couple of weeks is I wanted to listen to both Pulitzer
1:39.8	Prize winners, fiction and nonfiction. So I'll start with a fiction, Nightwatch by Jane Ann Phillips.
1:45.8	It is a mother-daughter story takes place in what is then called a lunatic asylum. But what is
1:51.6	startling about this book is it's about the chaos after the Civil War. So it takes place between
1:57.9	1864 and 1874. And I'd never thought about that before, about how
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