Robert Fischell developed several implantable medical devices credited with saving tens of thousands of lives on Earth.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Benson is a film-maker who’s compiled an extraordinary book of still photographs. Lawrence Weschler wrote the book’s Afterward.
Peter French tells Anne Strainchamps the ancient Greeks thought revenge was a good thing, and analyzes the vengeance scenario of Clint Eastwood’s film “Unforgiven.”
In Laura Poitras's film "My Country, My Country" she shoots in cinema verite style and based her film on the actions of an Iranian physician and his family around the recent Iranian election.
April is National Poetry Month and we’re celebrating with a collection of interviews with major American poets. Today, Charles Monroe-Kane talks with Pulitzer-prize winning poet Rae Armantrout.
Jonathan Lethem's new novel is "Chronic City." The book has been described as a cross between the famous borough-centric New Yorker cartoon and the darkest episode of "Seinfeld."
As Planned Parenthood looks ahead to its centennial in October 2016, Ellen Feldman's "Terrible Virtue" gives us a captivating portrait of the organization's resolute founder, Margaret Sanger.
Lewis Hyde invokes the cultural commons – that vast store of art and ideas from the past that enrich everybody's present.
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