One of this summer's hot new reads is Dean Bakopoulos' new novel, "Summerlong." It's the story of Claire and Don Lowry. They've been married for a long time. And they're now back in the college town where they met -- Grinnell, Iowa. Claire wanted to be a writer but wound up a stay-at-home mom, while Don is a real estate agent. When we meet them, they're deeply in debt and unbeknownst to Claire, they're also behind on their mortgage. And then everything begins to fall apart.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Philip Ball tells Anne Strainchamps that artists had to be chemists for centuries and that often the paintings we see now look nothing like the originals.
Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
You'll have to know the great expectations of Cornell students to be successful for this round of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz!
"Shock Doctrine" journalist Naomi Klein's Dangerous Idea? Democratize the world's energy supply.
Jon Ronson was assigned by The Guardian newspaper to find out how easy it would be to build a dirty bomb. So he did.
Jason Hartley talks about his book, "The Advanced Genius Theory: Are They Out of Their Minds or Ahead of Their Time?"
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