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There's still time for deep and thoughtful reading this summer -- and our 500th episode.When John Perry and Ken Taylor began shopping around their idea of…
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Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.In a way Gun Island a book of uncanny events,…
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What should you have been be reading this summer—and how should you have been reading it? We’re often told that fiction offers us entertainment, moral…
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Today is the final day of February: Black History Month. But did you know that it’s Women in Horror Month too? Oakland writer Sumiko Saulson enjoyed…
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How do today's best TV shows explore questions about identity, morality, and the human condition?They called it a “vast wasteland” in the 1960s, but TV is…
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Award-winning, best-selling author and columnist Vanessa Hua recently released her debut novel “A River of Stars”, the story of an escaped maternity hotel…
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What have you read this summer that challenged your assumptions and made you think about things in new ways?Summer is almost over – what philosophers,…
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What books should thoughtful people read this summer? Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism may be a…
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Is remix culture an exciting new development in the arts, or a sign that genuine creativity is dead?For decades, literary critics have been questioning…
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What books should thoughtful people be reading this summer?What philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read up on this summer?…