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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist whose book "Half of A Yellow Sun" is set during the period of civil violence surrounding the creation of Biafra.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Walter Kirn bookmarks "The Dog of the South" by Charles Portis.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Ariel Levy tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist’s nightmare.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nikil Saval talks about his book, "Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace." 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer David Morris explains why "Solo Faces" by James Salter is one of his favorite books.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The power of big data—why so many corporations and government agencies and political pollsters and baseball teams are after it—is that it can reveal things we might otherwise not see. But statistics alone can't do that. We need to transform those statistics into stories. One artist doing that is Brian Foo, aka the Data Driven DJ. He takes large data sets and turns them into music. His first song, "Two Trains," amplifies a dire but often ignored truth about our country: income inequality.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Barbara Fischer tells us the story of how starting a garden saved her life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Dominique Browning tells Anne Strainchamps that after her divorce, she took a perverse pride in letting her house fall apart. Eventually, she came back to life and started taking care of things again.

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