From one of Israel's leading novelists, a gorgeous and searing story about war and grief.
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Chuck Klosterman talks about "Through a Glass, Blindly," the essay about voyeurism in his book, "Eating the Dinosaur."
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
Dana Lindaman tells Anne Strainchamps that Americans should remember that other countries have different views of America.
Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
Davy Rothbart is the founder and editor of “Found” Magazine. He reads some samples of the notes and lists he’s found and talks about them with Jim Fleming
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
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