Natasha Trethewey read Miscegenation.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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For Jeannette Walls, one of the things she struggled with most was keeping her past a secret from just about everyone.
In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.
Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.
Mark Robert Rank tells Steve Paulson that American society is structured to accept a certain amount of poverty but that other capitalist societies have chosen to do things differently.
Episcopal priest Matthew Fox tells Steve Paulson why the belief in Original Sin is destructive and leads to a culture of pessimism.
Reality TV manipulates the lives of its participants but we watch it anyway. Why are we so hooked?
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