Essayist Susan Ehrlich is a practicing pediatrian who remembers what it was like treating her father during his final hours.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Cultural historian William Miller, author of “The Mystery of Courage,” tells Steve Paulson that the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers on September 11th displayed extraordinary courage.
Film director Rodney Ascher recommends Paul Schrader's 1988 movie, "Patty Hearst."
One more story from Walter Moskowitz, the last of the Bowery Scab Merchants. Walter tattoos 80 men in a day.
There's a great urbanization afoot in China. The government plans to move more than 100 million people into cities by 2020. But there's an old divide between rural and urban citizens. What happens when they become neighbors?
Photographer Rachel Sussman has documented 30 of the oldest living things in the world.
Jane Austen abandoned her novel "Lady Susan," but filmmaker Whit Stillman has revivied it - in a new film and novel, both called "Love and Friendship." He talks about why he loves Austen and the 18th century.
Do you believe in love at first sight?
James Bennett says he experienced... well... something like it.
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