The Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot previews her upcoming first-ever performance-art piece, slated to premiere in 2026 and a collaboration with the nonprofit Performa; explores her fraught fascination with animals, childhood, and the climate crisis—the intersection of which she examines in-depth in her her soon-to-debut film “In the Veins”; and reflects on why, for her, a work is technically never finished.

Cook and food writer Alison Roman, author of the best-selling books “Dining In” and “Nothing Fancy,” talks about her forthcoming title, “Something From Nothing,” out Nov. 11, and reflects on the diaristic quality of her dishes, how time and money have shaped her cooking style and approach to recipe-writing, and the beauty of prioritizing tangible things in our ephemeral digital age.

The British writer and cultural critic Olivia Laing, author of the “The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise” and the forthcoming novel “The Silver Book,” discusses the symbiotic relationship between gardening and writing; the act of rebelling against a reactive, adrenaline-fueled culture by prioritizing and embracing slowness, in-person conversation, and what they call the “temporal self”; and the importance of imagining, in vivid detail, the kind of utopia we could one day very well live in.

The British author and journalist Oliver Burkeman shares his refreshing perspectives on the limitations of time management and productivity hacks as a means toward a fulfilling life. He also reflects on his previous 20-plus years writing for The Guardian, during which he authored the widely read column “This Column Will Change Your Life”; the influences that shape his temporal understanding, from the Stoics to medieval peasants; and why he tries to eschew any inkling of urgency in order to seek “aliveness.”

On Ep. 136 of Time Sensitive—produced in partnership with with the Aspen Art Museum and recorded in Aspen, Colorado, during the inaugural AIR festival—the physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker, author of the mind-expanding book “Life as No One Knows It,” discusses time’s essential role in the “assembly theory” physics framework she’s spearheading alongside chemist Lee Cronin, how her childhood growing up in an antiques-filled Connecticut home shaped her fascination with the material world, and why understanding life’s origins on Earth—and exploring alien life beyond our planet—is crucial to understanding ourselves.

For our final episode of Season 11, the author James Frey joins us to talk about his latest novel, “Next to Heaven,” a rollicking, raunchy, absurd-yet-not satire about the one percent of the one percent living in a fictional Connecticut town. Frey also reflects on the 20-plus years since publishing his first book, “A Million Little Pieces,” which blew up in controversy and became a soaring media spectacle; his long-term study of Taoism and how he tries to live according to the ways of the Tao as much as he can; his writing as a gateway to being as vulnerable, open, and bold as possible; and why love, for him, is the greatest drug there is.

The writer, journalist, and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast joins us to discuss her new memoir, “How to Lose Your Mother.” Reflecting on a devastating year—one in which her once-famous mother, the author and second-wave feminist Erica Jong, was diagnosed with dementia and her husband with a rare form of cancer—Jong-Fast talks about her mother’s best-selling 1973 novel “Fear of Flying” and her own actual fear of flying, 27 years of sobriety and how her time in A.A. has transformed her life, and the importance of confronting the vicissitudes of aging and one’s passage through time.

The Polish-born, Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade joins us to discuss the profound and impossible-to-pin-down nature of time, the unfathomability of all things, the humor and irony of being human, and the relief of knowing that some questions have no clear answers—and never will.

The chef and restaurateur Thomas Keller, whose restaurants include the three-Michelin-starred The French Laundry in Yountville, California, and Per Se in New York City, joins us to discuss his recent “Chef’s Table” episode on Netflix and his cameo on the FX show “The Bear,” memory-making as a key part of his hospitality operation, and why persistence is the greatest form of pleasure.

The drummer, percussionist, and composer Billy Martin talks about his three-plus decades of making experimental, boundary-pushing, and uncategorizable instrumental jazz-funk-groove music as part of the trio Medeski Martin & Wood, his concept of “rhythmic harmony,” his deep reverence for bamboo, and why he views sound creation as a sacred act.

For our latest “site-specific” episode, we visit the British architect and designer John Pawson at his country home in the Cotswolds to discuss the problems he sees with trying to turn minimalism into a movement; his deep-seated belief in restraint, both in life and in architecture; and his humble, highly refined approach to creating sacred spaces, whether a monastery in the Czech Republic, a church in Germany, or a basilica in Hungary.

The Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh—who, just a week after we recorded this episode, won the competition to design the British Museum’s Western Range, which holds a third of the museum’s gallery space; was also recently announced as the architect of the new Qatar Pavilion in the historic Giardini of Venice; and is the designer of the Bahrain Pavilion at the just-opened 2025 Osaka Expo—details her “archaeology of the future” design approach; reflects on the long-view, across-time qualities of her work; and outlines what she believes is architecture’s role in shaping a better world ahead.

The artist, author, and aesthete extraordinaire Leonard Koren, renowned for his cult books including “Wabi-Sabi,” “Arranging Things,” and “Undesigning the Bath,” shares his love for the “fussy and beautiful” Japanese tea ceremony, details his best and worst baths, and explains why he views his life as one long aesthetic experience.

The acclaimed English-born, Kyoto-based travel writer Pico Iyer discusses his new book, “Aflame: Learning From Silence”; the reverence he has found through his hundred-plus visits to a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California, across the past three decades; the purpose and joy of travel; and what he finds most essential in life.

The London-based furniture and fashion designer Faye Toogood discusses the enduring fame—and fun—of her Roly-Poly chair; her career trajectory from magazine editor and stylist to designer; her reflections on her past and present “assemblages”; and how she embraces play in her work.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-selling books “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” and “Outliers” and the host of the Revisionist History podcast, talks about his latest title, “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering”; the disappearance of what he calls “the critical enterprise in America”; and how A.I. is complicating his famous “10,000-Hour Rule.”

Richard Christiansen, founder of the garden-pleasure apothecary Flamingo Estate, talks about his lifelong connection with beekeeping and honeywhy more brands should embrace “radical inconsistency” in their products; and how reading a book by Jane Goodall, and later befriending the anthropologist and conservationist, changed the course of his life. He also shares his circuitous journey from Australian farm boy, to running the New York City creative agency Chandelier for nearly two decades, to now overseeing a global collective of growers from his seven-acre home and farm in the hills of Los Angeles.

The geologist Marcia Bjornerud, author of the new book “Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks,” discusses the power of looking at the world through a Deep Time lens, why we’re currently in what she considers a “golden age” of geoscience, and what a “time literate” society would mean for humanity and the planet.

Nachson Mimran, the co-founder of The Alpina Gstaad hotel in the Swiss Alps as well as the co-founder of the decarbonization, refugee empowerment, and “human optimization” organization to.org, discusses his big-picture view of the word hospitality; how a family tragedy led him and his brother to create to.org; and his bold vision for building transformative spaces for culture, art, and well-being in refugee settlements.

The novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem, author of the new book “Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture” (ZE Books), discusses his passion for book dedications; the time he spent with James Brown and Bob Dylan, respectively, when profiling them for Rolling Stone in the mid-aughts; how his writing is, in part, a way of dealing with and healing from his mother’s death in 1978, at age 36; and why he views his work as “fundamentally commemorative.”