If you like novels about computers and the history of technology, then you must know Neal Stephenson's work. The author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle talks with us about his new novel -- a fast-paced thriller about the world of hyper-gaming. It's called "Reamde."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.
.Historian Jeffrey Kripal makes the case for taking paranormal phenomena more seriously.
Music journalist Rob Sheffield has a new book out remembering his fascination with Duran Duran.
If you think the American middle class has it bad, consider life in debt-ridden Italy or Greece. Best-selling financial writer Michael Lewis portrays the downfall of several European countries with his usual verve, in Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World.
Oliver Sacks talks with Jim Fleming about the awesome power of music to enrich lives of patients with Parkinson’s Disease and other neurological disorders.
Rebecca Solnit is the author of "River of Shadows," a book about Eadweard Muybridge and his stop-motion photography.
How do you set poetry to music? Grammy Award-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider did it with Ted Kooser's poems, sung by Dawn Upshaw. She tells Anne Strainchamps how she finds beauty in her art.
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