Diederick Van Eck talks about Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as his inspiration for his album "Van Gogh by Van Eck".
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Novelist Elif Shafak talks with Jim Fleming about the controversial concept of insulting Turkishness and the death of newspaper editor Hrant Dink
The last word goes to Dr. Seuss. His Sneetches found out the hard way about trying to follow the latest fads.
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.”
Novelist Erin Morgenstern has written a dark fairy tale for adults. At the center of the novel is a magical circus.
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