Mary Ann Caws is an internationally respected scholar of surrealism. She has translated many of the movements major texts and is the editor of “Surrealism (Themes and Movements).”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Paul Berman has written for The New Republic and the New York Times Magazine. His new book is “Terror and Liberalism.” He says that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq is the intellectual heir of traditional fascist movements
Mucha Lucha is a Warner Brothers cartoon based on the Mexican tradition of masked wrestlers. The cartoon is the brainchild of an Australian and a Chinese.
Marcella Hazan is a chef and teacher of cooking. She thinks Americans totally misunderstand Italian food.
Intensive polling over several years in both countries shows that Americans and Canadians are developing differences in their social, political and moral attitudes.
Writer Michael Pollan tells Steve Paulson that a lot of what's on supermarket shelves isn't food and that Americans have many options if they want to improve the quality of their diet.
The sonic sepia of a rare 78RPM lets us eavesdrop on Cantor Isaiah Meisels, singing prayers for theJewish High Holy Days in 1907.
Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page and the procrastination that leads to.
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