Photographer David Plowden talks about why he loves bridges and why it was important to preserve them on film.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Talking about race is fraught these days, so it took guts for Paul Beatty to write his novel "The Sellout." It's a satire about a young black man who winds up on trial at the Supreme Court. And along the way, he enslaves an old friend and re-segregates the local high school.
Music journalist Charles R. Cross shares one of his favorite forgotten albums from The Sonics.
In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents. He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.
Dwight Reynolds talks with Steve Paulson about the history of religious tolerance in Al-Andalus and how it was reflected in the music of Moorish Spain.
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
Charles Monroe-Kane profiles one of the ultimate hipsters – musician and cult hero Chuck E. Weiss. With lots of music by him and inspired by him.
Tufts Medical School psychiatrist Daniel Carlat believes psychiatry is in crisis.
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