How exactly does social media allow someone in say, Tunis, to overthrow their government?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jazz musician Ben Sidran talks with Jim Fleming about the tremendous influence Jewish immigrant composers and songwriters had on American popular music.
Charles Yu is the author of a critically acclaimed new novel, "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe."
No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?
Music historian Henry Sapoznik tells the story of Blind Alfred Reed and one of the early American protest songs.
Writer and illustrator Bruce McCall talks with Steve Paulson about why he hated the 1950s, and some of the fantasy cars he thinks the decade might have inspired.
You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you. Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”
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