Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
Mariana Gosnell tells Anne Strainchamps why ice floats, and stories about ice bergs.
The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
Environmentalist Jennifer Jacquet qrecommends "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine.
Neil McCormick believed he was going to be the world’s biggest rock star, but that’s what happened to his childhood friend, Bono.
Maurice Sendak talks about growing up as a Jewish child in WWII New York.
Singer/songwriter Robert Ellis Orrall talks about his fictional indie rock band, Monkey Bowl.
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