Few Latin American novelists are as beloved across the globe as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here’s Steve Paulson’s 2006 interview with translator Edith Grossman, who’s done more than anyone to bring Garcia Marquez to the English reading world.
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Harvard University historian John Stauffer talks with Steve Paulson about whether or not Lincoln was a racist.
Historian Sean Wilentz tells Jim Fleming the birth of Dylan’s music is deeply bound up in the politics of the time.
How come many of the latest pop songs sound as if they could have been released decades ago? Music journalist Simon Reynolds tells Steve Paulson that our obsession with our immediate past could get in the way of future creativity.
So your future self’s woken up at home on this weekday in 2055. Time for work, right? But what kind of work? With America’s old industries sagging, what kind of jobs will we do? Here's MIT management professor, Erik Brynjolfsson.
The Oxford English Dictionary was created in 1857, and was expected to be finished within ten years. The first edition was finally completed 71 years later.
Russell Foster tells Jim Fleming how the body uses light to tell time; why night shift workers have more accidents; and why it can matter when you take your medicine.
Self-described former jihadist Mubin Shaikh recounts his journey into, and out of, extremism.
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