Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer who's written a memoir called "Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poet Mary Rose O'Reilly talks with Anne Strainchamps about the archaeology of memory and reads some of her work.
Joel Hirschorn thinks urban sprawl is a terrible idea and tells Steve Paulson all the reasons why.
This is a poem by Susan Avishai about a single elderly woman who lived next door for more than 25 years.She wrote it just a few months before her neighbor passed away.
Taking pictures of war is complicated. The late philosopher Susan Sontag thought a lot about the moral implications of taking and looking at photos of human conflict. She wrote a classic book on the subject, called “Regarding the Pain of Others.” We're revisiting our interview with her, about how to see and think about photography.
Why are we so obsessed with finding someone who completes us? What if we're already complete? That's what Michael Cobb wonders. In his book "Single" he argues that it's time to take the pressure off couples and look at other ways of living.
Lynne Cox is a long distance swimmer who specializes in the impossible. She tells Steve Paulson how she trained, and how she’s able to do survive in such cold water.
Jonathan Lethem talks about "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick," the project Dick obsessed over during the last eight years of his life as he tried to come to terms with a series of strange visionary experiences.
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