Arika Okrent is a linguist and the author of "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Logian Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist with a twist; he's also a musician and record producer. He says brain imaging is showing how our brains listen to and make music.
Human and animal history is so intertwined it's hard to imagine one species without the other.
Alissa Quart Recommends Elena Ferrante's "Days of Abandonment" and Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sleepless Nights."
David Leavitt is the author of a novel called "The Indian Clerk" which tells the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the uneducated Indian who amazed Cambridge University with his mathematical discoveries.
David Carradine kept a diary during the production which has just been published under the title “The Kill Bill Diary."
Storyteller Carolyn McVickar Edwards has a lovely little collection called "In the Light on the Moon."
What if Crack Babies were a myth?
To see the NYTimes video on Crack Babies click here.
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