Sarah Bakewell recommends "The Pillow Book" by Sei Shonagon (translated by Ivan Morris).
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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How accurate is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father? In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with acclaimed biographer David Maraniss about Obama’s real coming-of-age story, his struggle with racial identity and his early political ambitions.
Princeton historian Anthony Grafton explains how learning conversational Latin inspired his students.
Psychologist Drew Westen tells Jim Fleming that Democrats need to learn to sell their core issues by speaking in emotionally effective language.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives." He tells...
Elisabeth Sifton is the daughter of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote the famous “Serenity Prayer.” Sifton tells Steve Paulson about the history of the Serenity Prayer.
74 year-old Cree musician Buffy Sainte-Marie has done a lot since she was 24. She got her Ph.D. She got politically active in the American Indian Movement and the anti-GMO movement. She raised a family. She was even on Sesame Street for five seasons—and was the first woman to breast feed on American television.
But most of us know Buffy Sainte-Marie as an iconic 60s folk singer with such hits as "Universal Soldier" and "It's My Way." And now, some 50 years after her debut album, Buffy has a new one. It’s called “Power in the Blood.” This new CD proves that this Oscar, Juno, and Golden Globe award-winning woman's career is not over yet.
Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about the growing popularity of farmers’ markets.
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