Criminologist Nils Christie's Dangerous Idea? Treat prisoners as people.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Mamet talks with Steve Paulson and says the secret to writing a successful screenplay is to focus on what happens next. That's all the audience cares about.
David Denby of The New Yorker tells Steve Paulson that Pauline Kael was the most remarkable person he’s ever known.
Elaine Scarry's a defender of beauty. She says not only does beauty thrill and compel us, it also inspires us to make the world more just. Here's our extended interview with her.
In this UNCUT interview, novelist Deborah Harkness talks about studying the history of magic, and then transforming history into fiction.
Ariel Levy tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist’s nightmare.
These days, it seems motherhood has become a struggle just to stay on top of the latest self-help trend.
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