Author Rick Bass walks us through the changing seasons of the Montana wilderness, in his new book, “The Wild Marsh.”

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explains how kindness went out of fashion, and why we need it more than ever.

Karl Greenfeld grew up in the shadow of an autistic brother. He’ll talk about his new book, “Boy Alone.”

Globalization backlash. A new critique out of the third world and black America.

“Death be not proud.” “My love is a fever.” We look at 500 years of poets making sonnets.

Novelist Joseph O’Neill’s award-winning novel, “Netherland,” has been on the president’s nightstand. We talk with O’Neill, and with writer James McBride, about its themes of American identity.

Call it a literary mashup hour. We asked author Joseph O’Neill, whose novel “Netherland” President Obama has been reading, and James McBride — of “The Color of Water” fame — to take a look at one another’s books and do a show together. They said, “sure!”

A new novel from Ali Sethi on growing up under dictatorship and upheaval in Pakistan.

Last week, we had a tremendous response to our show on summer books. Many people wanted to know more about the books that On Point listeners were talking about. Here are the “listener picks” that you heard on air.

Summer’s here, and it’s time for a great read — or two, or three. We’ll ask top critics what’s on their must-read list.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Blackmon on the effective “re-enslavement” of African Americans after the Civil War.

Social critic Douglas Rushkoff makes the case for “re-humanizing” a globalized, corporatized world.

Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, and other bards of invented tongues. We’ll explore, with linguist Arika Okrent.

Famed crime thriller writer Elmore Leonard talks about his latest, “Road Dogs,” and compares notes with former poet laureate Robert Pinsky.

We talk with Toni Morrison, novelist and Nobel laureate, about censorship and the power of the free word.

Nobel winning novelist Toni Morrison joined us to talk about censorship and writers around the world. Here she is at the 2008 PEN American Center awards, delivering a speech that she would fold into a new volume called “Burn This Book.”

We’ll talk with actor, writer, and performer Eric Bogosian about sex, death, celebrity, talk radio, and his new novel, “Perforated Heart.”

High-flying British historians Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson join us to debate the American future.

We’ll talk with Washington Post national security columnist David Ignatius about Tehran and Washington and his new spy thriller, “The Increment.”

We’ll dig into a new biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, America’s first great tycoon.