Not all illustrators agree on what to call graphic novels or when the first one appeared, but most agree that the man who brought them into the mainstream was Will Eisner.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In “The Hunt for Zero Point” Nick Cook writes about the secret world of research into anti-gravity technology.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem talks about the work of Philip K. Dick. Dick is one of Lethem's literary heroes.
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Do do I look good in this dress? We all know the answer, right? It’s "you look great." Even if that’s not quite true.
The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs.
Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!
Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.” He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.
Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.
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