Film critic & scholar Emanuel Levy grew up on the movies. In Israel they had no television and so his parents would take him to the movies once or twice a week.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Shields talks with Anne Strainchamps about his book, which is a meditation on how our bodies decay and die, and his irrepressible father who is 97 and who doesn't give death the time of day.
Faith Adiele flunked out of Harvard and went to Thailand to study languages. There, she became the first ordained Black Buddhist Nun.
Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."
Architect Charles Jencks and his late wife started a private garden to explore scientific concepts through landscape art. Jencks published a book of photographs of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, which inspired composer Michael Gandolfi to create a piece further exploring the same ideas.
Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."
Alba is a real rabbit, created in a lab and genetically modified to glow in the dark. Eduardo Kac talks about the moral and ethical implications of art using living subjects.
There are lots of ways we identify ourselves – where we come from, our race, our religion… but perhaps nothing shapes our identity more than whether we’re a man or a woman. But even that can get really complicated. Independent producer Aubrey Ralph explains.
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