Margaret Salinger talks about her childhood in the woods of New Hampshire with her father, J.D. Salinger.
Margaret Salinger talks about her childhood in the woods of New Hampshire with her father, J.D. Salinger.
Ned Rorem tells Jim Fleming that the world of classical music is all about money today and that performers seem to matter even more than the music.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."
The world's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," visits with Steve Paulson and demonstrates why he's been called "Darwin's rottweiler."
Mark Ross talks recounts the nightmare of being kidnaped, along with a group of tourists he was guiding, by armed rebels in Uganda.
Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.
Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss tells Steve Paulson that the latest news in cosmology is that the universe is still expanding and at an accelerating rate.