Tom Matthews' first novel, “Like We Care,” tells what happens when some teenagers simply stop spending money on all the stuff that’s marketed to them.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Vikram Chandra writes in English, the language of the colonizer, and faces accusations that he's not really an Indian writer.
Novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle talks with Jim Fleming about his latest. “Drop City” is set in a California commune in the 1970s, and concerns the activities at one of America’s many private little Utopias.
Are political beliefs predetermined at birth? Encoded in our genes? Political scientist John Hibbing does fMRI studies of liberal and conserative brains and says there are significant biological differences. His message: stop yelling at the other party. They can't help what they think.
Celebrated jazz pianist Vijay Iyer has a Ph.D in music cognition and a penchant for asking big questions - like, what is music? And what does it do for us? Steve Paulson caught up with Vijay backstage before a recent concert, where they talked about improvisation and the parallels between jazz and basketball.
For Robert Farris Thompson, the most beautiful, intimate and passionate of dances is Argentine tango.
Ziauddin Sardar responds to the question "is there really a clash of civilizations?"
Former Senator Bob Kerrey talks with Steve Paulson about one bloody night in Vietnam that has haunted him for decades.
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