Music historian Will Friedwald talks with Steve Paulson about “As Time Goes By” and why we love it.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Stephen Batchelor wants contemporary Buddhists to re-think the life of the Buddha.
T.C. Boyle's new novel features a face-off between an animals rights activist and a biologist.
Novelist Tom Perrotta talks with Anne Strainchamps about life in the suburbs, where everything is nice, and nobody wants a pedophile to move into the neighborhood.
Vivek Maddala composes new scores for silent movies. He tells Steve Paulson how music can tell a story.
Historian Tariq Ali tells Steve Paulson that the current Indian government is dominated by Hindu fundamentalists.
A typical commute turns interesting in David Tigner's story about autonomous cars.
"I had never known that beauty and death could go together." Joanna Ebenstein runs Brooklyn's Museum of Morbid Anatomy, which celebrates the memento mori that were part of daily life in the past. From art sculpted out of a dead person's hair, to death masks molded from a corpse's face, she give us a tour.
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