Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Moshin Hamid shares many characteristics with the central character of his novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
Lieutenant Shannon Kilkoyne talks about her experience as a female soldier in Iraq.
Cultural Critic Richard Todd looked at modern life and saw others telling what is and isn't real.
Jane Juska tells Anne Strainchamps why, at the age of 66, she took out an ad in the NY Review of Books looking for as many sexual partners as possible.
Joel Waldfogel talks with Jim Fleming about what's really wrong with all those cringe-inducing neckties and fruitcakes nobody eats.
Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Matthew Klam talks about his experience with Ecstasy and reflects on the pharmaceutical industry’s influence on the cultural perception of drug use.
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