Jay Rubin is the author of “Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words.” He talks about why he first read Murakami, and talks about some of his stories, especially one called “The Elephant Vanishes.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rachel Mason of Chicago’s Second City comedy toupe, tells the story of what happened when the group toured military bases for the USO right after September 11th.
Louise Brown tells Anne Strainchamps that the traditional culture of prostitution is related to the performing arts in Pakistan but that it is being replaced by a sex industry.
Jessica Stern is one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism. In her book "Denial: A Memoir of Terror," Stern recounts her own brutal rape at age fifteen.
The President shouldn't rely on his science advisors to explain what a dirty bomb is or why clean coal is important.
Martin Amis talks with Jim Fleming about his new novel, "House of Meetings" and the legacy of Stalin on Russia.
Naif Al-Mutawa is the Creator of "The 99," a comic book series featuring a group of superheroes, each of whom derives a power from one of the 99 attributes of Allah.
The 12 people who died during the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office are on our minds this week. Most of the victims were cartoonists for the French satirical weekly. Its reporters and editor received death threats for the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. A hit-list published in an Al Qaeda magazine in 2013 also named the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Steve Paulson talked with him a few years ago, while Westergaard was living in hiding in Denmark.
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