Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American Natural History Museum.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Rocker Nick Cave talks with Steve Paulson about the relative freedom of writing prose versus song-writing...
Ramiro Burr talks with Jim Fleming about the explosive growth in Latino radio in the United States, and the incredible variety of Latino musical styles.
The past is a fascinating place to visit, especially when you consider how little it would take to make it an entirely different place.
Lynn Sharon Schwartz is a veteran traveler and novelist but has admitted to herself that at this stage in her life, she is over traveling.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.
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