Chicago historian Tim Samuelson tells Jim Fleming about the time the City of Chicago decided to reverse the flow of the Chicago river and send its waste south along the Mississippi.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jennifer Jacquet explains how public shaming can be used to promote political change and social reform.
Few Latin American novelists are as beloved across the globe as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here’s Steve Paulson’s 2006 interview with translator Edith Grossman, who’s done more than anyone to bring Garcia Marquez to the English reading world.
Shelley Mitchell has created a one-woman play called "Talking with Angels." She talks with Anne Strainchamps about the play and the historical incident and book on which it's based.
Goldstein and Pinker are atheists, and they talk with Steve Paulson about the debates pitting reason against faith.
Sounds from the Dane County Farmer’s Market, right here in Madison, Wisconsin. Our farmer’s market is the largest in the country.
Susanna Clarke is the author of “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.” It’s a huge novel that’s being called “Harry Potter for grown-ups.”
Some of us think of dance as something best left to the professionals, people with years of training and technique. But when Sally Gross started dancing, she realized that she'd never master ballet or modern dance. So she made a whole new kind of dance...
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