How do young people in Burma use karaoke as a form of political protest?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Myhrvold talks about inventing and his six-volume, 2400-page, 52 pound cookbook called Modernist Cuisine.
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Susan Tom has adopted a dozen or so special needs children, plus has two of her own. Jonathan Karsh has made a film about her family called “My Flesh and Blood.”
Jane Juska was 67 when she placed a personal ad in the NY Review of Books looking for good sex with a man she liked.
Our intern, Nayantara Mukherji, grew up in Bombay India, and all summer long, she’s been telling us stories about the unusual interactions she’s had with her neighbors there. Like this one – the case of the disappearing cat.
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Ruth Ozeki's novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," is just out in paperback. Anne Strainchamps talks to Ozeki about her book, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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