Michael Paterniti travels to the highlands of Spain to track down one of the world's greatest cheesemakers.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
Stewart Lee Allen designs for Anne Strainchamps a menu based on the 7 deadly sins.
Sherman Alexie wrote a novel in response to 9/11. He thinks the fanaticism of flying planes into buildings is the end game of tribalism and he wanted to teach his sons something else.
Democracy, politics and Pakistani rock and roll.
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.
Art critic, novelist and editor Wendy Lesser reads excerpts from her essay "Hitchcock's Vertigo."
Tom Lessl conducted a study of the Darwin fish emblem some people slap on their cars. He says that it seems to have little to do with evolution but represents a rejection of fundamentalist Christianity.
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