Amitav Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Hari Kunzru talks about listening through the scratch and hiss of old 78’s for the voice of the past.
Angelique Kidjo is "Africa's Diva" and its most celebrated female musician.
Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic.
Michael Gurian says the second half of our lives has three distinct stages that shape our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Anne Strainchamps talks with Anne Fadiman about her book “Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.”
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