This is a rerun of our episode about the book American Prometheus, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. It originally aired on October 27, 2022.

We're rerunning it in honor of the movie Oppenheimer, which Christopher Nolan wrote based on this book. This episode contains spoilers.

Related stuff:

• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• The Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb by McGeorge Bundy in the New York Review of Books
• Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb by Ronald Takaki

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This episode is about Heaven, a novel by Japanese author Mieko Kawakami

References:

• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

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This episode is about The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a novel by the Pakistani-British author Mohsin Hamid.

References:

• Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
• Moth Smoke, by Mohsin Hamid
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a box office bomb starring Riz Ahmed
• Opinion piece on Pakistani-Indian relations by Mohsin Hamid: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/opinion/pakistani-militants-the-enemies-of-peace-the-internal-enemies-of-pakistani-peace.html
• Mohsin Hamid profile: https://www.fastcompany.com/3045216/why-companies-need-novelists
• Interviews with Mohsin Hamid: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3c7l and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144ybj
• Critique of Hamid's work by Zain R Mian: https://herald.dawn.com/news/1398781
• The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
• The Fall, by Albert Camus

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