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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What do you do when your buddy in high school turns out to be the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British TV Producer Peter Pomerantsev found he was out of his depth when he was invited to move to Moscow to develop a Russian version of the west's popular reality shows.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

British novelist Jim Crace is an atheist. He doesn't believe in an afterlife, and tells Jim Fleming that he intended his novel "Being Dead" to be a comfort to readers.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman is one of America's most visible economists. He teaches at Princeton, has a column in the New York Times and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"The Alphabet of Manliness" is politically incorrect, testosterone-laden and deliberately outrageous – an example of "fratire.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Wilson's novel takes place in 1924 and he explains why many fundamentalist Jews of that period were anti-Zionist.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Margaret MacMillan explains the historical context of the Nixon trip to China and how it changed the course of history.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

If you like novels about computers and the history of technology, then you must know Neal Stephenson's work.  The author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle talks with us about his new novel -- a fast-paced thriller about the world of hyper-gaming.  It's called "Reamde."

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