Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julian Barnes talks about “England, England.” It’s his latest novel, in which all the tourist attractions of England (Stonehenge, the Tower of London, the Royal Family) are recreated in one theme park.
Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page and the procrastination that leads to.
Would you prefer to die in your sleep? Turns out, more people who weighed in on our three deaths question chose that option. Many of the people who shared their choices also took the time to write about why they were making their choice. You can read a selection of their responses here, and get some analysis of who wrote and - perhaps - why.
Richard Sennett makes the case that our definition of craft should be expanded to include any job a person commits to executing to the best of their abilities.
Peter Kornbluh, directs the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project. He’s just published “The Pinochet File,” which uses recently declassified documents to prove that there was American involvement at the highest levels of government in the efforts to foment chaos in Chile.
Kieran Mulvany is the co-creator of a humorous website dedicated to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the outrageous Iraqi Information Minister. He says that troops in the desert and war planners at the Pentagon love the site.
Americans spend billions of dollars a year on over-the-counter pain relievers. In fact, all over the world, easing pain is big business. And Aspirin’s one of the top sellers. Why? Charles Mann, author of “The Aspirin Wars”, tells Steve Paulson what happened when a German company called Bayer came to America:
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