Here's our extended conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and imagining the future.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.
Kayla Williams tells Anne Strainchamps that women soldiers feel sexism from their fellow soldiers, even in war zones, and that it complicates their lives.
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.
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.
TTBOOK host Jim Fleming reflects on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s a new park in Manhattan, full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik La Farge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
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