We're celebrating National Poetry Month this year by reading some of our favorite poems. Here's Charles with Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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How do composers and performers play with our expectations to keep the brain interested in music?
Long before the Occupy movement made headlines, writer Dean Bakopoulos foreshadowed it in a darkly comic novel called My American Unhappiness.
Douglas Wolk tells Steve Paulson why comics became such a vital medium for individual artistic expression.
Elaine Scarry's a defender of beauty. She says not only does beauty thrill and compel us, it also inspires us to make the world more just. Here's our extended interview with her.
David Cantwell and Bill Friskics-Warren are the co-authors of “Heartaches by the number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles.”
These days, it seems motherhood has become a struggle just to stay on top of the latest self-help trend.
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