This week’s Between the Covers podcast is with Charles Hill, author of Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order. We discuss why Hill thinks diplomats ought to read more literature. Hill also names the one book that he believes every GOP presidential candidate should know.

Grand Strategies is one of the most interesting books I’ve encountered this year–and one of the most creative apologias for liberal learning (which is so often small-c conservative) that you’ll find anywhere. Over yonder, I’ve posted a short extract from its introduction.