Lev Grossman tells Anne Strainchmps about his experiences working at one of the great repositories of rare books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Flores and Marc Bamuthi Joseph are spoken-word poets in the San Francisco Bay area.
Marcus Chown is agog at the wonder of the universe and tells Anne Strainchamps that we haven't begun to understand the strangeness of it all.
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale. In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.
The massive protests in Ferguson, Missouri are on our minds this week. We explore the racial conflict and police violence with sociologist Alice Goffman.
Mark Lee was a war correspondent for the London Telegraph in East Africa. He barely made it back alive and has now written a novel called “Canal House.”
Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?
Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture.
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
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