Ahmed Rashid worked as an advisor to Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special envoy to the Pakistani region and says the U.S. was never really interested in the Afghanistan's real problems when we rush in.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alison Bechdel calls her comic book memoir Are You My Mother? “a comic drama.” The New York Times Book Review calls it “as complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.” Here’s Steve Paulson’s NEW and UNCUT interview with Bechdel.
Andre De Shields talks to Jim Fleming about his mission to win new roles for black actors, roles that are traditionally reserved for white actors.
A. Van Jordan has put together a collection of poems about physics.
The 100th centennial of Alan Turing’s birth is June 23rd. In this NEW EXTENDED interview, Turing biographer Andrew Hodges tells Jim Fleming about Turing's childhood, innovation, code-cracking and persecution for his homosexuality. Hodge's book is Alan Turing: The Enigma.
Anne Strainchamps reports on the current spate of Christian thrillers which involve cloning Christ.
In the third installment of the story of the end of Dan Pierotti's life, his wife Judy talks about Dan's last days, and final moment.
Celebrated poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote the foreword to the book, "This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra." He spoke to Steve Paulson about Sun Ra's music and poetry.
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