Inside North Korea. We talk with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Orphan Masters Son.
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Bestselling author Isabel Allende’s novel of a Chilean grandmother saving a granddaughter who’s down and out in Las Vegas.
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Washington Post editor Fred Hiatt’s latest novel tells the fictional tale of a girl’s search for her missing father in China. We’ll talk with him and the real woman behind the story.
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Music philosopher Greil Marcus listens back to The Doors and hears dread and light and Thomas Pynchon.
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“The Mortal Sea.” A ship’s captain turned scholar tracks our impact on the oceans through time.
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Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman says crony capitalism has left the U.S. economy in giant trouble. He’s with us.
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What happy families do right, from telling the family story to creating healthy relationships across generations.
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Never mind future shock. Douglas Rushkoff says we’re suffering “present shock.” The tyranny of the digital, always-on “now.”
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