Who's the real Barack Obama? Biographer David Maraniss traveled around the world searching for answers. He says Obama's life is surrounded in mythology.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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This book really got us excited. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic.And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. And who is this Luigi Serafini? Is he the author?
Bryant Urstadt is a freelance writer from Connecticut. He wrote "Imagine There's No Oil: Scenes from the Liberal Apocalypse" for Harper's Magazine.
What's the oddest - or most delicious - translation of traditional food that you've sampled?
LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic – or reinterpreted – culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
Listen to the UNCUT interview here. We recommend having some snacks on hand!
Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about shopping at farmer’s markets. She says slowing down for food is one of the best ways to bring pleasure back into your life.
Are you feeling a little cynical? Maybe a little down? Have no fear, we have a documentary to cure what ails you. It’s called “The Gnomist.” As in garden gnomes. And if you think this is some sort of post modern ironic bait and switch you could be no further from the truth. Our producer Charles Monroe-Kane caught up with the film’s director, Sharon Liese, to find out what happened with garden gnomes along the Tomahawk Creek Trail in Overland Park, Kansas. A place now dubbed The Firefly Forest.
Daniel Wilson, author of “How to Survive a Robot Uprising” tells Jim Fleming the secret is to go for their sensors!
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights, tells Jim Fleming his organization hopes to protect the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians.
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