Alison is a historical biographer and novelist. She examines the life of Mary Boleyn as the sister who lost the king to her sister Anne.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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When we’re talking about data, we’re really talking about code—the languages that structure every aspect of our digital lives. But can code itself be interesting? Or even beautiful? Vikram Chandra grew up in India and always wanted to be a novelist, but when he came to the United States, he discovered computers—going from a weekend tinkerer to a consultant who paid his way through grad school. He spoke with Steve Paulson on what makes good writing, and what makes good code.
Anne Carson is a writer who constantly rearranges poetry's furniture. As a translator, essayist, critic and poet, she's constantly forging new forms. In this UNCUT interview, she and Jim Fleming talk poems, old and new.
Do banks really have to rule the world? Not if we use alternative currencies. Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne say thousands of these different exchange systems already exist to meet people's real needs.
What would happen to our planet if all the human beings simply disappeared with all our junk? Basically, nature would waste no time taking over.
Find out what brain imaging technology can tell us about the experiences of Franciscan nuns and Pentecostalists at prayer.
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.
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