Archive - The.Ink

ESSAY: The feeling that unites a divided America

My essay on the defining political emotion of the age, now in The Ink

20 hrs ago • Anand Giridharadas

A dispatch from the road

Some glimpses of book tour, some events to meet up at, some interviews

Oct 28 • Anand Giridharadas

Where is the “Real America”?

A conversation with Robert P. Jones, the brilliant scholar of evangelical America in the age of Trump

Oct 15 • Anand Giridharadas and Robert P. Jones

1:04:16

Live from my hotel, with Wajahat Ali

Talking with my friend and hilarious, fiery host about cities, the Real America, and the asymmetry of humanization in our society

Oct 13 • Anand Giridharadas and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

53:10

Notes from the road -- and some news

Oct 8 • Anand Giridharadas

From certitude to curiosity

A personal and civic conversation with the legendary Tina Brown, now streaming

Oct 3 • Anand Giridharadas

The woman who wrote “Man in the Mirror” sang it to me

Notes on the world echoing back at you

Oct 2 • Anand Giridharadas

September 2026

🚨 It’s here. MAN IN THE MIRROR is out! 📖

A story that changed me, three chapters to listen to, and an invitation to read together

Sep 29 • Anand Giridharadas

Scott Turow (!) reviews MAN IN THE MIRROR in The New York Times

The legendary crime writer’s appraisal of MAN IN THE MIRROR just dropped. Plus, a gift: the first three chapters in audio form

Sep 27 • Anand Giridharadas

A first look inside MAN IN THE MIRROR

An excerpt in The New Yorker, about a night I spent in Penn Station

Sep 26 • Anand Giridharadas

A conversation the internet couldn’t have

On the humanity beneath the headlines, and an invitation

Sep 24 • Anand Giridharadas

Behind the viral clip

Episode 2 of my new YouTube investigative series just dropped

Sep 22 • Anand Giridharadas

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