Kat Duff recommends "Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead," translated by Normandi Ellis.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Corby Kummer is the food writer for The Atlantic Monthly. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about Flur de Sel, a gourmet sea salt imported from France.
David Kalat, author of "J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring, The Grudge and Beyond" tells Steve Paulson what these Japanese gore-fests have in common.
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
How exactly does social media allow someone in say, Tunis, to overthrow their government?
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.
Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
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