Martha Bayles talks with Anne Strainchamps about why we love war movies and what messages they send.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
Can you fall in love with anyone? More than 20 years ago, psychologist Arthur Aron made two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. How? He asked them 36 questions. This year, Mandy Len Catron tried out the 36 questions with a guy she barely knew. Now they’re in love.
Kendall Taylor is the author of the most complete account yet of the marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Taylor tells Steve Paulson that the marriage was volatile from the beginning.
Mira Nair is an Oscar nominated, India- born film-maker who divides her time between America and the sub-continent.
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have been photographing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for 30 years. They talk about the conditions in the prison - nicknamed Angola, for the plantation that was formerly on the site - and how they've changed over time. When they see the inmates working in the fields, they say, it looks a lot like slavery.
Rae Armantrout believes that there is one thing that all poetry should be - read out loud.
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
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