Pianist Christopher O'Riley performs the classics but also covers the rock music of his own time.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Colm Toibin is the author of a novel called “The Master,” based on the life of Henry James.
A few maverick physicists in the 1970s revived interest in quantum physics by exploring some of the deepest philosophical questions about reality.
Damali Ayo runs the website rent-a-negro.com. She's written a book called "How To Rent A Negro."
Dean King tells Jim Fleming about the ordeal of Captain James Riley and his crew. They lost their ship and were enslaved by desert nomads for months.
Novelist Tim O’Brien talks about the life-long consequences of the decisions the Viet Nam generation made in their twenties, and says it’s harder to effectively protest today.
Psychologist Steven Pinker's Dangerous Idea? We may be living in the most peaceful time of our species’ existence.
The Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, has won a landslide election in India, sparking fears of new sectarianism. Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy is one of the BJP’s most prominent critics. In this EXTENDED interview, Roy tells Steve Paulson why she stopped writing fiction to focus on political activism. She begins with a reading from her Booker Prize-winning novel “The God of Small Things.”
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