Andrew Solomon talks with Steve Paulson about his own experience with depression, and why depressive illness is becoming more common.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Aaron Sanchez talks with Anne Strainchamps about what makes salsa irresistible and shares some of his favorite salsa recipes.
Alex Gibney is the director of the Academy Award winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side."
How do you preserve reality in a virtual world? David Fielding tells us in this story about a tribunal tasked with that responsibility.
Amy Tan talks with Anne Strainchamps and recalls how her mother used to believe the spirits of their ancestors dwelled inside the computer. How else could Amy know all the family secrets?
Ann Patchett's new book chronicles her long friendship with poet Lucy Grealy who became famous after the publication oh her acclaimed memoir “Autobiography of a Face.”
In his book "The Ethics of Voting," Georgetown philosopher Jason Brennan argues that we'd be better off if more people stayed home on Election Day. He says citizens don't have a civic duty to vote, and that some of us probably shouldn't vote at all.
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel "The Color Purple." She talks with Jim Fleming about "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth".
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