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Following the Iranian revolution, the new regime grew stricter toward women, and cracked down on intellectuals. Our guest today, Azar Nafisi, stayed on in…
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Police shootings and deaths of African-Americans in police custody have prompted calls for a national conversation about race. So, what do well-meaning…
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American author Erskine Caldwell was born in Georgia in 1903. His most famous novel, 1932’s Tobacco Road, boldly addressed the South’s inequalities during…
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Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? What was left out of the song was Rudolph's New Hampshire connection. Before the stop-animation TV special,…
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As a soldier, an army officer, and then a Foreign Service officer Ron Capps experienced five wars in ten years, and came home with severe PTSD. Today on…
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On the 450th anniversary of the birth of the language's greatest writer, it seems appropriate to reflect on the work of William Shakespeare. In 2005, the…
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The idea of writing a book about writers who drank too much sounds a little like shooting fish in a barrel. The relationship between addiction and…
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Enthusiasm for the fictional British detective is hardly new. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes in an 1893 issue of Strand magazine,…
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Have The Works Of Shakespeare Been Played Out?For more than four hundred years, the works of William Shakespeare have given us language to describe the human condition. The Bard’s works have been…
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Since the posthumous publication of her poems in the 1890’s, Emily Dickinson has been portrayed as a virginal recluse, a mental case, and a victim of a…