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,...
Shocking acts of violence are committed in the name of religion, but Karen Armstrong says we're too quick to blame faith for violence and intolerance around the world.
Mikael Niemi is the author of “Popular Music from Vittula,” the single best-selling book in Swedish history.
Sixty years after those Avant Garde composers of the 1920s, some Japanese musicians followed in their footsteps, exploring the outer reaches of sound with “noise music.”
Jim Tucker is a child psychiatrist and director of the University of Virginia's project on children's memories of previous lives.
Would you like to sharpen your memory? Science writer Joshua Foer tells you how to build an elaborate memory palace.
According to psychologist Meagan Curtis, the inherent sadness of the minor third is what we hear in music.
Peggy Orenstein tells Anne Strainchamps about “parasite singles” - young Japanese, mostly female, who reject the traditional life of marriage and children.
