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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The asexual movement calls into question everything you thought you knew about love and romance.  We talk with David Jay, founder of AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Samuel Delany’s review of “Call me Ishmael” by Charles Olson.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

NRBQ has been called the world’s greatest bar band, but prefer to say they play “omni-pop,” and explain that’s why they’ve lasted for over 35 years.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Diana Athill was the editor of some of the most celebrated writers of our time, including John Updike, Simone de Beauvoir, and V.S. Naipaul.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

These days beauty’s got a complicated reputation. One professor of literature and aesthetics at Harvard is giving beauty a makeover.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Bill Welden, an expert on Tolkien’s Elvish languages, talks about Elvish derivations and vocabulary and remembers his visit to the set of the “The Lord of the Rings” movie.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frederic Spotts is the author of “Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics.”  Spotts says that Hitler saw himself as a painter and was forever wounded by his failure to impress the artistic establishment.

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