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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Carson is a writer who constantly rearranges poetry's furniture. As a translator, essayist, critic and poet, she's constantly forging new forms. In this UNCUT interview, she and Jim Fleming talk poems, old and new.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Alain de Botton talks about "A Week at the Airport."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps talks with Anne Fadiman about her book “Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Thousand and One Nights have been told and re-told for centuries, censored and banned in the Middle East, and made into cheesy Disney movies for kids. But have you ever read them? Here's the backstory with Steve Paulson. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

One could argue that there's been no better time to be a consumer. With a few keystrokes, you could order most any good or service from the comfort of your own home. But does this convenience come at a cost? Journalist Paul Roberts says we're living in a culture of instant gratification, which has the potential to make us all isolated and shallow.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Andrew Weil is one of the most influential voices in alternative medicine today.    In his latest, “Spontaneous Happiness,” Weil talks about living a life that promotes happiness and peace of mind.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Adam Frank is an atheist with a spiritual bent.  As an astrophysicist, his yearning for the sacred is rooted in science.  It's an impulse going back to his childhood.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

In 1992, Alexander Blakeley graduated from college and headed for the newly capitalist Siberia.  He tells Anne Strainchamps he found a wilderness of greed, theft and exploitation.

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