Film critic David Edelstein talks with Jim Fleming about angels in the movies, and we hear lots of examples.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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The Tarahumara tribe of Mexico grow up running barefoot and live very long lives happily running into advanced old age...
Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, recommends E.O. Wilson's "The Meaning of Human Existence."
Elizabeth Samet teaches literature to future Army officers at West Point. She tells Jim Fleming why her class reads Wilfred Owen and Homer, and what lessons they draw from the poetry.
Researchers have discovered that cats have their own taste in music. It sounds nothing like that crap you listen to.
Getting words, quotes, even lines of verse inked under the skin is more common that you think. There’s even a name for it: Literary Tattoos
Chris Gray is the author of “Cyborg Citizen.” He thinks anyone whose body has been artificially altered by technology is a cyborg. Forget bionic limbs, he means even people who’ve had vaccinations!
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