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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Award winning writer Pagan Kennedy has written an essay about Dr. Alex Comfort, the pioneering sex researcher behind the book "The Joy of Sex."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 went through the roof after the latest news about the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ communications. What would defying state control look like these days? Writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow considered the question in his novel, “Little Brother.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Katherine Ramsland set out to track down a ghost and chronicles her adventures in search of the paranormal in her book “Ghost: Investigating the Other Side.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Zacks, author of “The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd,” tells Jim Fleming that Kidd, was a privateer - a pirate hunter - not a pirate.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio been interviewing disgraced exiled dictators for years. He put them together in a book called “Talk of the Devil.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 Jane Walmsley is an American who’s lived in England for twenty five years.  Her book is “Brit-Think, Ameri-Think.”  She talks with Anne Strainchamps about how American attitudes differ from British ones.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Paul Krugman is one of America's most visible economists. He teaches at Princeton, has a column in the New York Times and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

John Berendt tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways.

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