Novelist Jonathan Lethem's new book is called "You Don't Love Me Yet." It's the story of an alternative rock band in Los Angeles trying to find success and themselves.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The massive protests in Ferguson, Missouri are on our minds this week. We explore the racial conflict and police violence with sociologist Alice Goffman.
P.D. James created Adam Dalgleish, a detective almost as beloved as Holmes. Steve Paulson spoke with her on the occasion of the publication of her memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography."
John Sedgwick was born into the historic and prominent Boston Sedgwick family and seems to have inherited the family tendency toward mental instability.
Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?
Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture.
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
Liaquat Ahamed talks about the parallels between the recent financial meltdown and the events that led up to the Great Depression. Both situations involved bubbles, and errors by the Federal Reserve System.
Psychologist Michael Thompson consults with school systems about how to communicate with boys.
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