Erik Davis, a fifth generation Californian, tells Jim Fleming that geographically and culturally, his state supports diversity and exploration.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anthony Shadid died on assignment in Syria on February 16. In this UNCUT 2010 interview Shadid told Steve Paulson about covering war and its aftermath.
Michelle Wildgen recommends "Crossing to Safety" by Wallace Stegner.
Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor says we're now living in "a secular age," but we're still trying to figure out what a post-religious world looks like, and how we can find meaning in a culture without any over-arching purpose.
A few years ago, poet Christian Wiman picked up his pen after a three-year hiatus, when he fell in love and was diagnosed with cancer. Listen in as he reads a poem from "Every Riven Thing," the book of poems that followed. You can also hear our interview with him about the collection.
What if Crack Babies were a myth?
To see the NYTimes video on Crack Babies click here.
David Leavitt is the author of a novel called "The Indian Clerk" which tells the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the uneducated Indian who amazed Cambridge University with his mathematical discoveries.
Azar Nafisi is the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran." Her book tells the story of how this English professor met with her students to discuss Western literature in Revolutionary Iran.
Pages
