Martin Amis talks with Jim Fleming about his new novel, "House of Meetings" and the legacy of Stalin on Russia.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Judith Farr tells Jim Fleming that Emily Dickinson had several gardens and a conservatory and wrote about flowers in her poems and in her letters.
John Cage wrote some of the most controversial music of the 20th Century. Kenneth Silverman explores Cage's life in a groundbreaking biography called "Begin Again."
Suppose you drank too much at that party last night and some embarrassing pictures of you got posted on Facebook. Do you have a right to delete them? In Europe, you now have that legal right. But Georgetown University's Meg Jones says Americans are still sorting out conflicting demands for privacy and free speech in the digital age.
Robert Gottlieb and Robert Kimball tell Steve Paulson what makes a lyric work and that many of the great songs came from Broadway and Hollywood musicals.
In this UNCUT interview, Pico Iyer tells Jim Fleming about his obsession with novelist Graham Greene. That obsession is also the subject of Iyer's new book, "The Man Within My Head".
Drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs is the author of "Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies That Changed History."
There's a big debate among ecologists right now over whether we can have hope in the face of climate change. Science writer Emma Marris says we need it. And it’s not just newspaper headlines and environmental campaigns that need to change, we need to rethink “nature.”
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