Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer who's written a memoir called "Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lynne Cox is a long distance swimmer who specializes in the impossible. She tells Steve Paulson how she trained, and how she’s able to do survive in such cold water.
Taking pictures of war is complicated. The late philosopher Susan Sontag thought a lot about the moral implications of taking and looking at photos of human conflict. She wrote a classic book on the subject, called “Regarding the Pain of Others.” We're revisiting our interview with her, about how to see and think about photography.
Jane Walmsley is an American who’s lived in England for twenty five years. Her book is “Brit-Think, Ameri-Think.” She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how American attitudes differ from British ones.
John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.
.Historian Jeffrey Kripal makes the case for taking paranormal phenomena more seriously.
Matt Haimovitz tells Steve Paulson why he plays music that goes so far beyond the standard repertoire, and why he plays it in bars and coffeehouses as well as concert halls.
What do you do when your buddy in high school turns out to be the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?
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