Anthropoligst Anne Allison talks about our love affair with Japanese pop culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."
For most of us, pain is a sign of physical injury. Generally the pain fades as the injury heals. But for people with Behcet's Syndrom pain is a constant companion.
Jimmy Palmieri tells Anne Strainchamps about his practice of praying the pain away.
James Finney Boylan had gender re-assignment surgery in his 40s and is now Jennifer Finney Boylan.
Nina Simonds tells Jim Fleming about dining at Singapore's Imperial Herbal restaurant, where the staff herbalist prescribes a meal for you aimed at balancing your yin and yang.
TTBOOK host Jim Fleming reflects on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's best known writers. We sample an excerpt from her psychological thriller, Real World.
Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
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