Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Daron Acemoglu on Marxism and AI | 2024-04-04 | ||
| The Marxes | 2024-04-03 | ||
| Claire Dederer on Reckoning with Problematic Artists | 2024-03-28 | ||
| Gala Dalí | 2024-03-27 | ||
| Sandra Newman on her Retelling of 1984 | 2024-03-21 | ||
| Eileen Blair | 2024-03-20 | ||
| Fernando Arroyo on Musical Collaboration | 2024-03-14 | ||
| Billy Strayhorn | 2024-03-13 | ||
| Stephen West on Philosophy | 2024-03-07 | ||
| Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | 2024-03-06 | ||
| Hilary Liftin on the Art of Ghostwriting | 2024-02-29 | ||
| George Palmer Putnam | 2024-02-28 | ||
| Eric Marcus on Bayard Rustin’s Legacy | 2024-02-22 | ||
| Bayard Rustin | 2024-02-21 | ||
| Sarah Vowell on Peggy Shippen & Revolutionary America | 2024-02-15 | ||
| Peggy Shippen | 2024-02-14 | ||
| Significant Others Returns! | 2024-02-07 | ||
| Bonus Episode: Dr. Susan Flinn on the Significant Others Within Ourselves | 2024-01-25 | ||
| Bonus Episode: Liza Mundy on the History of Women at the CIA | 2023-12-28 | ||
| Bonus Episode: Dr. Emily Wilson on the Art of Translation | 2023-11-30 |