TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2023 - a podcast by Council on Foreign Relations

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”

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/twnw-special-what-read-summer-2023 

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