Fraidy Reiss, the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, joins us to discuss her work to help women and girls escape arranged and forced marriages, and her efforts to end child marriage in the United States. Leonard Slatkin, conductor of the Orchestre National de Lyon, joins us to discuss his recent concert at Carnegie Hall, as well as the orchestra’s first American tour since 2003. Laurie Sheck joins us to discuss her novel, Island of the Mad, which follows Ambrose A., a man who travels to Venice in search of a mysterious lost notebook. Alexandra Lange, architecture critic for Curbed, talks about her story, “The forgotten history of Japanese-American designers’ World War II internment: Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR’s executive order.”
