In her new memoir, "Ongoingness," Sarah Manguso talks about how keeping a diary—so often considered a virture—for her became a vice. But her obsessive diary keeping changed with the birth of her first child.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby. He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.
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.
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
Dana Lindaman tells Anne Strainchamps that Americans should remember that other countries have different views of America.
Jessica Disu (FM Supreme) talks about using hiphop as a positive force to deliver messages of peace and non-violence.
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