Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton's new novel has a setting that's close to home. "The Excellent Lombards" is a story of generational tension set on a family apple farm. Steve Paulson talks about writing, farming and apples with Jane while walking through her own family orchard.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Music historian Will Friedwald talks with Steve Paulson about “As Time Goes By” and why we love it.
Tom Key wrote and performs a one man play called “C.S. Lewis On Stage.”
Biologist Stephen Palumbi tells Anne Strainchamps that insects and microbes are benefitting from human interventions.
The Bad Plus is a hot young jazz trio that puts a jazz spin of rock classics from Nirvana and Black Sabbath.
Steve Paulson reports from Cambridge University in England on Charles Darwin's own views regarding whether his theory of evolution was compatible with religious faith.
Senator Russ Feingold is a Democrat from Wisconsin who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In her book, "Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?: A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation," Seo-Young Chu argues that science fiction is a kind of "high-intensity realism." She spoke with Jim Fleming.
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