Daphne Merkin responds to Hilary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Alastair Bonnett's Dangerous Idea? Let's change our cities to promote urban biodiversity.
David Gessner wants to change the way people write about nature. Instead of the traditional stories about wild animals in pristine landscapes, he calls for a style of nature writing that's messy, even raucous.
Historian Donald Sassoon tells Jim Fleming that the Mona Lisa is a great painting, but that other factors conspired to make it an international icon.
Edmund Morris says Theodore Roosevelt was a force of nature - man of towering intellect, boundless physical energy and firm convictions whose greatest achievement as President was his commitment to conservation.
In his book "Back to Our Future" David Sirota says the proof is in the staying power of 80s pop culture.
Charles Dwyer on art with his homeless neighbor - Jerry Pfeil.
After writer Olivia Laing relocated to New York from England, she quickly discovered how lonely you can feel in crowd. Still reeling after a breakup and struggling to adapt to a new country, she turned to artists like Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and David Wojnarowicz to better understand how you can still feel isolated in a city teeming with millions of people.
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