Blogger Mark Manson on embracing our negativity as a means of consciously choosing what we really care about.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ellen Ruppel Shell talks with Anne Strainchamps about the effects of our obsession with low prices.
David Schmader thinks "Showgirls" is the most brilliant bad movie ever made. He did a commentary for the new DVD edition and tells Steve Paulson why it's so hilarious.
Dambisa Moyo was born in Zambia, got a Master's degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. in Economics from Oxford...
Chandler Burr's new book explains Luca Turin’s theory of how we smell and recounts his amazing ability to recognize the odor of particular molecules.
What does it mean to be free? And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."
Barry Unsworth says that the layers of history are tangible on Crete, and talks about some of the island’s mythic figures.
Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
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