Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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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?
Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
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.
Craig Childs is a naturalist and nature writer whose latest book is "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild." He talks with Steve Paulson about some of his life-threatening encounters with wild creatures and why he's not especially worried in the wild.
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.”
Christine Yano tells Steve Paulson about Japanese “enka” music – songs that are intended to make listeners and performers cry.
Philosopher David Benatar argues that its time we paid more attention to gender discrimination against men. He's the author of "The Second Sexism."
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