Ben Ratliff has been a jazz critic at the NY Times since 1996.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin straddles avant-garde and mainstream film, and he’s obsessed with the lost masterpieces from cinema’s history. In this extended interview, Maddin tells Steve Paulson he’s haunted by the ghosts of early cinema.
Mindless Eating author and Ithaca native, Brian Wansink, cleans his plate on stage with Michael.
Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a famous critic of Islam. She talks with Steve Paulson about why she believes Islam is inherently incompatible with Western values.
Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.
In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.
WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.
Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.
Historian Jill Lepore talks about her restless search for the long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time." It ran some nine million words and was supposedly the work of a madman named Joe Gould, who believed he was the 20th century's most brilliant historian.
An algorithm might not be able to spit out a chart-topping song —at least not yet—but it might be able to help you write a best-selling novel.
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