NBA superstar LeBron James is coming home to Cleveland. So what does it mean for his fans in this blighted rust belt area? Charles Monroe-Kane talks with his fellow Northeast Ohio comrade, journalist David Giffels.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
Robert Glasper's new album Black Radio is a reference to the black box of recordings that survives a plane crash.
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
Joelle Biele discusses the correspondences between poet Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker.
Psychologist Martin Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association. He tells Jim Fleming about his philosophy of “Positive Psychology.”
Justine Picardie is a writer for British Vogue and a former editor at London’s Observer. She talks about her efforts to contact her sister Ruth’s spirit in the year after Ruth’s death from breast cancer.
John Stilgoe tells Jim Fleming that people would discover all sorts of new things if they would walk or ride a bicycle and leave the car at home.
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