Robert Glasper's new album Black Radio is a reference to the black box of recordings that survives a plane crash.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Zweig tells Steve Paulson that a lot of Americans who think they're middle class are actually working class.
Paul Martin says that people don’t get enough sleep these days and that our culture is wrong to diminish the importance and the pleasure of sleep.
British writer and playwright Michael Frayn talks with Steve Paulson about “Headlong." The book is about the painter Brueghel and the mania afflicting art collectors.
Peter Sobol, an honorary fellow in the History of Science Department at the University of Wisconsin talks with Jim Fleming about the best new science books of 2002.
Joelle Fraser wrote a memoir called “The Territory of Men.” She talks about her parents who did their best, despite pre-Women’s Lib conditioning and alcoholism.
The French have a curatorial attitude toward their language, but in fact they add new words all the time.
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was unclear how to elicit the stories of Hiroshima survivors. And then September 11th happened.
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