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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sjon is the Icelandic trickster, drawing on Icelandic sagas and surrealism to write his mythic stories.  He tells Steve Paulson why we need to re-enchant the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tim Richardson tells Anne Strainchamps about his favorite candies from around the world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One of the founders of queer theory says his childhood in the Pentecostal church laid the ground for his evolution as a gay man and literary scholar.  Michael Warner grew up around faith healing and speaking in tongues. He says it was an education in thinking beyond "normal". 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Steve Lopez is the author of "The Soloist," a book about a homeless musician named Nathaniel Ayers. Lopez talks with Anne Strainchamps about how he found Ayers and what he learned from him.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's money in the future. It's Liz Crawford's job to help big corporations figure out how to make it.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Satish Kumar became a Jain monk at the age of nine. Now he's the editor of Resurgence magazine...

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Susanna Clarke is the author of “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.” It’s a huge novel that’s being called “Harry Potter for grown-ups.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Ron Numbers talks with Steve Paulson. Numbers was once an ardent creationist and is the author of "The Creationists," the definitive history of the anti-evolutionist movement.

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