To mark the opening of the movie version of “The Sorcerer’s Stone,” an exploration of the phenomenal popularity of the Harry Potter books.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Author, music journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus talks with Steve Paulson about the ballad tradition in American music.
Herbert Siguenza wrote and performs a one-man play called "Cantinflas." It's based on the life and works of Mario Morena who performed as "Cantinflas" and was the Latin Charlie Chaplin.
Do you feel grief and longing when a place you love has been damaged? Then you may have "solastalgia" ...
George Crile tells Jim Fleming how Charlie Wilson almost singlehandedly persuaded the U.S. government to fund the Afghan Mujahadeen in their war against the invading Soviets.
Harold McGee recently visited the kitchen of L'Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin with Anne Strainchamps to provide a guided tour of food science.
Greg Kot, rock critic for the Chicago Tribune and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, talks about Tom Waits’ album “Nighthawks at the Diner.”
Poet Gillian Ferguson lives in Edinburgh. Her volume “Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies” explores her experience of being pregnant and giving birth.
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