Al Franken and Katherine Lanpher present "The Audio Crawl."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Imagine being a 15-year old boy on vacation in Pakistan, kidnapped and transported to Guantanamo Bay. Anna Perera's debut young adult novel focuses on the darker aspects of the war on terror.
Do you think your memory is like a video camera, storing every experience you've ever had? Historian Alison Winter says we tend to use technology metaphors to think about memory.
Neil Gaiman is famous for his mythic fiction - from old gods haunting American back roads to children raised by ghosts. He talks about how our lives are shaped and scarred by childhood experiences.
Single women are the most potent political force in America today. Rebecca Traister explains why young millenial women are delaying marriage -- just as Susan B. Anthony predicted.
A.M. Homes was adopted as a newborn. When she was 31, her biological mother made contact, launching the writer on a years-long quest into her identity.
Andrew Carroll directs the Legacy Project, which is dedicated to preserving war-time correspondence. He also organized pocket-sized “Armed Services Editions” of several books and distributed them to American troops.
One of the largely unknown stories about Camus was his friendship with the scientist Jacques Monod. Both later won Nobel prizes - Camus for literature, Monod for biology - and both were heroes of the French Resistance.
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