The contemporary art world was shocked in 2010 when the prestigious Turner prize went to a voice installation, the work of the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz.
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We all love the feeling of getting lost in a good story and seeing the world through a character’s eyes. Recently, psychologists have been studying whether that experience actually changes readers. Novelist and cognitive psychologist Keith Oatley tells us about the latest research connecting fiction with empathy.
Thebe Medupe is an astrophysicist who grew up under apartheid. He talks about the stories he grew up hearing from his village elders and the astronomical legends of the Dogun people in Mali.
Olivia Laing talks about her book, "The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking."
Stefan Gates is the author of and a self-described "Gastronaut" – someone who'll stop at nothing to experience a transcendent moment through food, no matter how bizarre.
Democracy, politics and Pakistani rock and roll.
Elizabeth Lunbeck talks about her book, "The Americanization of Narcissism."
Scott Topper's a poet, but that doesn't mean he's not conflicted about the twin powers of reading and writing.
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