Helen DeWitt tells Anne Strainchamps about her novel, "Lightning Rods," which focuses on a bizarre solution to sexual harrassment in the workplace.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gary Mitchell is a Vietnam vet who's struggled with PTSD for some 40 years. He was a sniper and assigned to carry out planned assassinations.
Can you know a culture if you don’t speak the language?
In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, we’re surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see what’s lost – or made new – in translation.
Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
Hal Taussig thought it was time to discuss what books should be in the New Testament, so he organized discussions with a council of advisors. They've come up with a volume that has what everybody knows, and quite a lot most people don't. In this UNCUT interview with Jim Fleming Hal Taussig describes some of the 10 books they've added and why.
Hope Edelman and her husband sought help from native spiritual healers during a trip to Belize for their then three year old child who was overly influenced by her imaginary friend.
U.S. Marine Corps Colonel George Fenton tells Anne Strainchamps about the military’s newest “non-lethal” weapon - active denial technology.
Harvey Shapiro is the editor of a collection called “Poets of World War II.” He was a gunner himself during the war.
Garry Kasparov may be the greatest chess player who ever lived. He tells Steve Paulson that he retired from the game to enter politics in his native Russia.
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