Esteemed British novelist Ian McEwan reads from his latest book, "Solar"...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is the author of "The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction."
James Miller has written a fascinating book called “Examined Lives," a collection of short biographies of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche...
Renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt has just published a new book about the foundation for the Renaissance and the modern world.
Crime fiction is increasingly a global phenomenon. Maybe you've heard of Nordic Noir... but how about Euro Noir? Or African, Indian, Japanese crime fiction?
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason wrote a book about four brainy Princeton students and a 15th century manuscript written in code and it’s a runaway hit.
Isabel Allende talks with Anne Strainchamps about "The Sum of Our Days." It's Allende's fourth memoir, and takes the form of a letter to her deceased daughter, Paula.
Maybe the Earth itself is alive. That’s the remarkable idea behind the Gaia hypothesis.
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