TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2024

The World Next Week

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