In this UNCUT interview, Katherine Boo talks about her much-lauded book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Acrassicauda means Black Scorpion and is the name of an Iraqi heavy metal band.
Christine Maggiore is HIV positive. She denies that HIV causes AIDS and says science is abandoning its own model of proving a theory.
Bill Vossler is the author of “Burma-Shave: The Rhymes, the Signs, The Times.” He talks about where the classic rhyming signs came from, and reads several examples.
David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
This book really got us excited. Everyone wanted to touch it. Borrow it. Talk about it. It felt like magic.And the title was just as mysterious – Codex Seraphinianus. And who is this Luigi Serafini? Is he the author?
It’s 2055, a regular weekday morning… Where do you wake up? With a booming population and more people moving into urban areas, chances are you’d be living in a city. But what might that city look like? Mitchell Joaquim is an architect, and one of the founders of the innovative design group, TerreForm1.
Eric Schlosser says our marijuana laws have a lot to do with class and race prejudice.
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