Brain sciences are overturning centuries of old thinking about human nature.
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No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Elliot Perlman is a Barrister in his native Australia. He’s also the author of a novel called “Seven Types of Ambiguity,” told by seven different narrators.
David Liss talks about how different trials were in the 18th century, and explains that modern patterns of thinking were only beginning to take hold.
Writer and illustrator Bruce McCall talks with Steve Paulson about why he hated the 1950s, and some of the fantasy cars he thinks the decade might have inspired.
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.”
Dorie Greenspan tells Anne Strainchamps what's hot in haute baking circles, and what she cranks out for her neighbors and the elevator operators in her building in New York.
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