Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"Shock Doctrine" journalist Naomi Klein's Dangerous Idea? Democratize the world's energy supply.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
For thousands of years, people have been telling stories about magical woods and enchanted forests. Writer and mythographer Marina Warner talks about the forest in human memory and imagination.
Robert Kurson talks about his new book, “Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II.”
Linda Gray Sexton describes in vivid detail her own, lifelong battle against depression and suicide.
Is marriage great literary material? That’s the question Jeffrey Eugenides plays with in his novel, “The Marriage Plot”. It’s a story about how reading can shape young minds.
In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with Eugenides about marriage, love, reading, the spiritual quest,...
Alan Turing was only 41 when he committed suicide. Filmmaker Patrick Sammon's film, Codebreaker, tells the story of Turing's brilliant life and of his persecution by British authorities for the crime of being homosexual. When he spoke to Anne Strainchamps a few years ago, he said Turing was a victim of the prejudice and paranoia of the time.
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