Paula Kamen has had the same headache for 14 years. Her book is “All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jonathan Lethem talks about his role as a novelist, which he explores in his new book, "The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, etc."
Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano tells Steve Paulson that our ideas about spirits and the soul can be entirely explained by new insights from brain science.
Maggie Nelson talks to Steve Paulson about her new book, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.
If there was an environmental Hall of Fame, Gus Speth would be a charter member. The former dean of the Yale School of Forestry, he's the founder of the World Resources Institute and cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He says we need get past our fixation on economic growth if we want to curb global warming.
These days it doesn't matter whether you are a conservative or a liberal, if you are looking for inspiration you look to Ronald Reagan.
What made Lincoln a great president? Was he a closet racist? We hear short interviews with Lincoln historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Orville Vernon Burton and John Stauffer.
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