Carl Honore talks with Anne Strainchamps about how the Slowness movement got started and how it's developed into a revolution.
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The best-selling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak was put on trial ten years ago for "insulting Turkishness". She says the political climate in Turkey is more polarized than ever today, and even riskier for writers. She also believes fiction can help heal divided cultures.
Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”
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.
His job for the New York Times is to troll the internet for new and noteworthy words. What do these words tell us about the times we live in?
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
One future that most of face is seeing someone in the mirror we don’t quite recognize. Here’s Donna McNeil’s story about facing aging.
David Thorpe is a filmmaker who went in search of his voice. Specifically, he wanted to know why he and many other gay men ended up markers of a "gay voice"—one with precise enunciation and sibilant "s" sounds. He spoke with his family and several speech therapists to better understand, control, and inhabit his voice.
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