Ana Menendez says the younger generation of Cuban-Americans are completely Americanized and the older generation wouldn’t give up the standard of living they’ve grown used to in Miami.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Anne Carson is a writer who constantly rearranges poetry's furniture. As a translator, essayist, critic and poet, she's constantly forging new forms. In this UNCUT interview, she and Jim Fleming talk poems, old and new.
The Thousand and One Nights have been told and re-told for centuries, censored and banned in the Middle East, and made into cheesy Disney movies for kids. But have you ever read them? Here's the backstory with Steve Paulson.
One could argue that there's been no better time to be a consumer. With a few keystrokes, you could order most any good or service from the comfort of your own home. But does this convenience come at a cost? Journalist Paul Roberts says we're living in a culture of instant gratification, which has the potential to make us all isolated and shallow.
Adam Frank is an atheist with a spiritual bent. As an astrophysicist, his yearning for the sacred is rooted in science. It's an impulse going back to his childhood.
Andrew Weil is one of the most influential voices in alternative medicine today. In his latest, “Spontaneous Happiness,” Weil talks about living a life that promotes happiness and peace of mind.
In 1992, Alexander Blakeley graduated from college and headed for the newly capitalist Siberia. He tells Anne Strainchamps he found a wilderness of greed, theft and exploitation.
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