There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a story of love, grief and hope told across humanity, time and history. Shafak joins us to talk about her central themes, empire and identity, her literary influences and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and […]
On September 8th, 1966, the Starship Enterprise boldly began a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds. Nearly 50 years later, Star Trek is still heralded for the way it explored strange ideas and new ways of telling crazy metaphorical stories. Unsurprisingly, the wealth of culture explored throughout all of the franchise’s incarnations has not only been […]