In Israel, writer D.A. Mishani is breaking new ground by writing crime fiction. Why are there so few detective novels written in Hebrew? Mishani explains.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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James McManus writes for Harpers. With an advance from the magazine, he entered the world series of poker. McManus talks about playing with professionals and muses on the balance of luck and skill required for tournament play.
Anne Strainchamps talks with the woman who created the modern mid-wifery movement, Ina May Gaskin.
Jai Uttal leads kirtans around the world. Kirtan is the Indian practice of ecstatic chant that combines music and devotion.
Anthropologist Hugh Raffles talks about the work of celebrated bee biologist Karl von Frisch and the remarkable ways bees reach consensus.
Ilan Stavans is compiling the first dictionary of Spanglish. He tells Steve Paulson that Spanglish is becoming an independent language.
How did the rich get richer while the American middle class got poorer? Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker outlines the political policies that led to historic levels of income inequality.
Howard Dully was twelve when he underwent a trans-orbital lobotomy.
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