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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Diederick Van Eck talks about Vincent Van Gogh's paintings as his inspiration for his album "Van Gogh by Van Eck".

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nick Bantock bookmarks "The Fencing Master" by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

No one doubts memory is one of the things that shapes our sense of self, but is there a science of self?

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The last word goes to Dr. Seuss. His Sneetches found out the hard way about trying to follow the latest fads.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and illustrator Bruce McCall talks with Steve Paulson about why he hated the 1950s, and some of the fantasy cars he thinks the decade might have inspired.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Benjamin Yandell tells Jim Fleming about the colorful personalities of the mathematicians who tackled some of the toughest problems in their field.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Daniel Smith talks about his book, "Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

You wouldn’t think the novel “Lolita” would go over big in an underground women’s book club in Tehran. But literature, like the people who read it, has a way of surprising you.  Azar Nafizi is the author of the celebrated memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

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