The invention of mechanical clocks created a kind of artificial time which permits greater efficiency, but cuts human beings off from the rest of nature.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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TTBOOK’s Charles Monroe-Kane visits the cornfield in Dyersville, Iowa where they filmed “Field of Dreams.”
Anthony Lane is the film critic for The New Yorker magazine. He tells Steve Paulson he loves both classics and trash - but only good trash.
Benedict Le Vay tells Jim Fleming that many customs still exist in England and are extremely important to the community, even though the reason for them is long forgotten.
Dilshad Ali talks about reading the Christian-influenced Narnia tales to her children.
Canadian novelist Sheila Heti talks about her new novel, "How Should a Person Be?" It's fiction, but the characters are real people -- they seem to be Sheila herself and her friends. Some of the dialogue is from actual conversations she transcribed. So what is this thing?
Novelist Elinor Lipman has written an essay for the New York Times on the fine art of blurbing – writing short, pithy quotes to appear on fellow authors’ dust jackets.
Historian and president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust tells Steve Paulson that Civil War deaths consumed the entire nation with grief and transformed America in many ways.
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