In this extended interview, literary scholar Rob Nixon explains why he recently re-read all of Carson’s writing, and says her legacy endures – from her warnings about environmental toxins in “Silent Spring” to her lyrical essays about the wonder of oceans.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood talks with Steve Paulson about her dystopian science fiction book, “Oryx and Crake.”
In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term "near death experience" and published the first definitive account of patients who described dying and coming back to life. He tells Steve Paulson what he's come to believe after listening to thousands of reports.
Historian Jill Lepore talks with Jim Fleming about Noah Webster and his dictionary. She says Webster thought Americans should have their own language and he celebrated American words.
Independent producer Matt Lieber takes us to visit The Moth, a collective in New York City that explores storytelling as an urban art form.
Janet Davis tells Steve Paulson that controversy has surrounded the use of animals in the American circus since the 1890s.
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
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