Gayle Ross is a Cherokee storyteller whose great great great grandfather was chief of the Cherokee Nation during the infamous Trail of Tears.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and Sean McCann are the founding members of the band Great Big Sea. Their music has its roots in Newfoundland traditional folk music, but it rocks!
Helen DeWitt tells Anne Strainchamps about her novel, "Lightning Rods," which focuses on a bizarre solution to sexual harrassment in the workplace.
Can you know a culture if you don’t speak the language?
In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, we’re surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see what’s lost – or made new – in translation.
Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
Gary Rosen edited a book called “The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq.” He describes the various lines of thought within the Conservative camp.
Grace Tiffany’s new novel is called “Will.” She talks about the Will Shakespeare in her mind with Anne Strainchamps.
Harvey Shapiro is the editor of a collection called “Poets of World War II.” He was a gunner himself during the war.
Gerard Jones tells Steve Paulson, a dad himself, that children need to be able to “destroy” the things that scare them.
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