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The Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, has won a landslide election in India, sparking fears of new sectarianism. Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy is one of the BJP’s most prominent critics. In this EXTENDED interview, Roy tells Steve Paulson why she stopped writing fiction to focus on political activism. She begins with a reading from her Booker Prize-winning novel “The God of Small Things.”

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Choreogapher Bill T. Jones recommends Lawrence Weschler's "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees."

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David Grinspoon is the author of “Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life.”

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In an essay called "Fail," Chuck Klosterman examines the thinking behind the so-called "Unabomber Manifesto."

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Brian Greene is a physicist who specializes in string theory. Greene says that time appears to move in one direction only to complex organisms like people. At the atomic level, electrons don’t know one direction from another.

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In this UNCUT interview, Katherine Boo talks about her much-lauded book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”.

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Bill Vossler is the author of “Burma-Shave: The Rhymes, the Signs, The Times.”  He talks about where the classic rhyming signs came from, and reads several examples.

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Conn Iggulden wrote "The Dangerous Book for Boys" with his brother, Hal. The idea is not to injure children but to help them have more fun.

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