David Schmader thinks "Showgirls" is the most brilliant bad movie ever made. He did a commentary for the new DVD edition and tells Steve Paulson why it's so hilarious.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
Audio
David Gewirtzman is a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Jacqueline Murekatete is a University student who lived through the tribal massacres in Rwanda. The two tour together speaking about the horrors of genocide.
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
Frank Rich tells Jim Fleming that the Broadway musicals of his childhood were all about dysfunctional families and helped him cope with his own difficult family situation.
In her new memoir, "Ongoingness," Sarah Manguso talks about how keeping a diary—so often considered a virture—for her became a vice. But her obsessive diary keeping changed with the birth of her first child.
A cancer patient took some psilocybin to help with the fear and panic about dying. A single dose created a life-changing experience in her final months.
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
Pages
