Donovan Campbell commanded a platoon of Marines in Ramadi. He tells Steve Paulson that to understand the events of April 6, you have to know what went on the night before.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We tend not to talk about death much in North America. Maybe we just don’t have the words to contain something so visceral. Maybe images are a better way to explore or express our mortality, and our feelings about it.
In a recent body of work, photographer Sarah Sudhoff helps us take a close look at death. In the NEW and EXTENDED interview, Anne Strainchamps talks with Sarah Sudhoff about ‘At the Hour of Our Death’.
Writer Edmund White looks back over 50 years of gay love and liberation. Although married, White has resisted what he calls “gay assimilation”. He talks about the politics of gay sex and promiscuity.
You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
Philosopher David Benatar argues that its time we paid more attention to gender discrimination against men. He's the author of "The Second Sexism."
Daniel Smith talks about his book, "Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety."
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.
Film critic David Edelstein talks with Jim Fleming about angels in the movies, and we hear lots of examples.
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