Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maggie Nelson talks to Steve Paulson about her new book, "The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning."
English journalist Jason Elliot tells Steve Paulson that Afghans are proud and pious people who still suffer from the aftermath of a decade of war.
Robbie Fulks talks to Doug Gordon about his latest album, "Georgia Hard," and his former identity as a staff songwriter for a Nashville music publisher.
Marina Chapman has the most remarkable story - kidnapped and abandoned in the South American jungle, living only with monkeys. Eventually, she's rescued and years later, moves to England, where she marries and raises a family. Marina and her daughter Vanessa James tell this story.
Historian Jeremy Black talks with Steve Paulson about James Bond as an agent of the British Empire. He says Bond’s adventures are often set in former British colonies.
Patrick Neate explains how young people from around the world adapt hip-hop to address their own concerns.
Is there a science of rap? Pioneering neuroscientist Charles Limb has put freestyle rappers inside brain-scanning machines, and he's seen an explosion of neural activity.
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