Mary Roach is the author of “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.” She reads from the book and talks about observing an anatomy class.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lev Grossman talks about his novel, "The Magicians," with Anne Strainchamps. It's the story of a young man who discovers magic is real, not that it makes his life any less complicated.
Mohamed Nasheed is on a mission to save his country. The Maldives is one of the nations most vulnerable to the effects of climate change; some models predict that the Maldives could be underwater in a few decades.
Rocker Nick Cave talks with Steve Paulson about the relative freedom of writing prose versus song-writing...
.Historian Jeffrey Kripal makes the case for taking paranormal phenomena more seriously.
Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 went through the roof after the latest news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications. What would defying state control look like these days? Writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow considered the question in his novel, “Little Brother.”
John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.
"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.
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