Mishy Harman recommends "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maybe the silver lining to any break-up is the soundtrack. You get the sad songs and the sorry songs. When you're tired of tears on your pillow and ready to revive, there are the angry break-up songs.
In this EXTENDED interview with producer Sara Nics, Jason Saldanha and Robin Linn of WBEZ's Sound Opinions talk blame, revenge and moving on.
WARNING: In this extended version, there is profanity in some of the lyrics.
Want to see the full list of suggested break-up song? Here it is.
Philosopher Lars Svendsen's Dangerous Idea? We shouldn't fear being lazy.
We tend not to talk about death much in North America. Maybe we just don’t have the words to contain something so visceral. Maybe images are a better way to explore or express our mortality, and our feelings about it.
In a recent body of work, photographer Sarah Sudhoff helps us take a close look at death. In the NEW and EXTENDED interview, Anne Strainchamps talks with Sarah Sudhoff about ‘At the Hour of Our Death’.
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.
NPR's former Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr talked with Steve Paulson about the audacity of politicians in 2008.
Veronica Rueckert took a crash course from DJ Puzzle (Jason Donnelly) and talked to Stephen Weber.
Erin McKean talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”
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