Natsuo Kirino is one of Japan's best known writers. We sample an excerpt from her psychological thriller, Real World.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jon Hein uses the term “jump-the-shark” to describe the precise moment when things begin to go bad.
Steve Paulson presents a profile of the late writer Noel Perrin, best known for his essays on rural life.
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.
Richard Goldstein, executive editor of the Village Voice, is appalled by the rampant chauvinism of popular culture.
Joshua Clover explains the subtitle of his book, “1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About.”
What made Lincoln a great president? Was he a closet racist? We hear short interviews with Lincoln historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Orville Vernon Burton and John Stauffer.
Jim Ridge performs a one man show called "Dickens in America," which he wrote with his friend Jim DeVita.
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