Jorge Drexler is the first person from Uruguay to win an Academy Award, for the song "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which is featured in the film, "The Motorcycle Diaries."
Jorge Drexler is the first person from Uruguay to win an Academy Award, for the song "Al Otro Lado del Rio," which is featured in the film, "The Motorcycle Diaries."
Madeline Kunin was the first female governor of Vermont - she served three terms and went on to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Education in the Clinton Administration. So, ask a product of feminism where the movement is heading next and she'll tell you, it's all about women, work, and family.
We share the mysterious story of the listener who sent us postcards in response to our show about handwriting.
Novelist Jim Crace believe current state of the world makes it all too easy to imagine a grim future.
Where does the idea of "being spiritual, not religious" come from? It might be William James and his classic book "The Varieties of Religious Experience."
Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."
Here's our extended conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and imagining the future.
Mr. Cutlets really loves meat. He talks about his favorite cuts and how to cook them and why his last meal would be a pastrami sandwich.