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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Photographer Michael Nye made portraits of the mentally ill and homeless people in San Antonio, where he lives. He also recorded their stories.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Kayla Williams tells Anne Strainchamps that women soldiers feel sexism from their fellow soldiers, even in war zones, and that it complicates their lives.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Here's our extended conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and imagining the future.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead got the magazine assignment of a lifetime: a week in Vegas, playing in the World Series of Poker.  He tells Doug Gordon about high stakes poker and his own "anhedonia," his difficulty experiencing pleasure.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nina Simonds tells Jim Fleming about dining at Singapore's Imperial Herbal restaurant, where the staff herbalist prescribes a meal for you aimed at balancing your yin and yang.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Breaking the law by singing "Happy Birthday"? That's absurd.

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