Video game designer Jason Rohrer tells Anne Strainchamps about his game "Passage," which is about mortality, not just an adrenalin rush.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The authors of “Persepolis” and “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth” speak together at the Wisconsin Book Festival 2006.
Mike Hoyt is Executive Editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He encouraged his staff to question embedded reporters about the embed system and the war.
John J. Miller grew up on rock and roll and decided to compile a list of the 50 best conservative rock songs.
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.
Jerome Charyn remembers the glory days of ping-pong in America. He talks about some of the great matches of the past and reflects on the worldwide popularity of the game.
We made some particular choices about the music in hour four. Here's a note from Charles about the thinking that went into the score, and a Spotify playlist to explore.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the celebrated husband and wife team who've translated many of the great Russian writers. They've just come out with a new version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
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