"Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini's got a new book out. "And the Mountains Echoed" is a tale of love that spans the globe, from Afghanistan to America to Greece. In this UNCUT interview he talks about the book and the nations through which its tale weaves.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht states Immanuel Kant's concept of Beauty is useful when applied to the world of sports, and that such Beauty approaches the sacred.
A deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards has been used by artists to create music and write book.
New York Times science writer George Johnson walks Steve Paulson through the weird world of quantum mechanics and speculates about building quantum computers.
Ghita Schwarz wrote about "A Case of Boredom" for the February issue of "The Believer" magazine.
Holly Black tells Anne Strainchamps what she thinks children get out of reading about magic or alternative realities.
Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts are the co-authors of "The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation."
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