From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Is there anything science won't tackle? The lastest question, "What is beauty?" We talk with two neuroscientists and an art historian about the new field of neuroaesthetics.
Dana Lindaman tells Anne Strainchamps that Americans should remember that other countries have different views of America.
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
David Thomson makes the case that "Psycho" was a ground-breaking film that forever changed American cinema and America itself.
Flash mobs: seemingly random gatherings of complete strangers doing something completely out of the ordinary. Bill Wasik started this craze.
Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
Augustin De la Pena is a psycho-physiologist who works at a sleep disorders center in South Texas, and a leading authority on boredom.
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