Jonathan Pieslak, author of "Sound Targets: American Soldiers and the Music in the Iraq War," talks with Jim Fleming about how U.S. forces use music and who they listen to.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lauret Savoy believes too many nature writers focus on pristine wilderness and neglect the gritty reality of the places where people actually live - in cities, for instance, maybe even near toxic waste sites - which forces us to grapple with questions about race and poverty.
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Every spring in Japan, people crowd under blooming cherry trees. They're signs of spring, and remembrances of life's transience.
Master gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama says the blossoms are the quintessential representation of the Japanese principle of mono no aware... beauty in the intertwining of life and death.
Ruth Ozeki's novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," is just out in paperback. Anne Strainchamps talks to Ozeki about her book, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Rick Steves is the author of 30 European guidebooks, and host of public radio and television travel shows.
Ray McGovern is one of the founders of Veteran Intelligence Professional for Sanity and worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years.
With all that New York has to offer, Robert Sullivan chose to spend his time in a dark alley in Manhattan observing rats.
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