Cultural critic David Shields wants to change the way we think about art.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Colson Whitehead talks to Steve Paulson about his post-apocalyptic take on the zombie novel, "Zone One". Listen in on this UNCUT interview.
It can be awkward to receive gifts. Especially if they’re gifts you don’t really want. The same goes for help.
Haddayr Copley- Woods has been grappling with how to handle unwanted help since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Poet Edward Hirsch bookmarks Alice Oswald's "Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad."
What he learned from Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman.
Death is the one that no one can survive. Unless… well, it depends on just how dead you are.
Sheri Booker was terrified when she first started working at the Wylie Funeral Home at the age of 15. She was still grieving the death of a beloved aunt, and took the job in the hope of finding a sense of closure. After preparing her first client — a suicide victim with a gunshot wound to the head — something changed. As morbid as it may sound, she was hooked.
What’s it like to grow up with a great naturalist? Well, it made quite an impression on the children of famed conservationist Aldo Leopold.
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