Michael Palma is the translator of the new Norton edition of Dante's "Inferno." He reads passages from it and talks with Jim Fleming about this literary classic.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Producer Rehman Tungekar talks with Anne Strainchamps about growing up in a multi-ethnic family.
Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor nearly died from a massive stroke at the age of 37. The experience taught her life lessons on how the mind perceives the world.
Jonathan Margolis talks with Jim Fleming about some of the innovations futurologists are predicting for us all, from ear stud cell phones to on-line vacations and cybersex.
Roald Hoffmann won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he’s also a poet. He thinks the two disciplines have a lot in common, and reads a couple of poems.
Nobody writes a dystopia quite the way Margaret Atwood does. In this EXTENDED conversation about MaddAddam - and a whole lot more - Atwood talks about utopia and dystopia, and the inherent optimism of all authors.
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