Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michio Kaku and Jim Fleming have a grand time exploring levels of impossibility and why the impossible just takes longer.
Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
Quentin Schultze is the author of “Habits of the High Tech Heart.” He says that we should resist “informationism” and try to develop wisdom.
Wisconsin Public Radio's Jim Fleming provides an essay about memory and his aging father.
Billy Collins reads the poem, "Reader," from his new collection of poems, "Aimless Love."
Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell tells Jim Fleming that dog-owners should be pack leaders but in the leadership style of Ghandi.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
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