The celebrated Irish novelist Colm Toibin talks about his admiration for the poet Elizabeth Bishop and the kinship he feels for her.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
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."
Dave Barry went on the campaign trail with some of the lesser known presidential candidates and describes some of the humiliation they encounter.
From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
A cancer patient took some psilocybin to help with the fear and panic about dying. A single dose created a life-changing experience in her final months.
Do physicists think about End Times? Noted string theorist Brian Greene does. He looks into the far future - billions of years from now - and sees a very dark universe.
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