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Artist’s Choice: Susanna Moore

Arts, Culture & Media

Novelist Susanna Moore talks about the Cuban singer Antonio Machin.

Civil War Re-enactors

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Special Guest: Adam Gopnik

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The Writer’s Journey

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Special Guest: Marina Warner

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Shakespeare and Sandman

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Shakespeare’s influence in the comic book novel Sandman, by British author Neil Gaiman.

Special Guest: Barbara Stafford

Arts, Culture & Media

Barbara Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History at the University of Chicago and the author of “Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine.”

Cover Story: Trains

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Kurt introduces special guest author and railroad worker, Linda Niemann.

Marina Warner on Myth

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Kurt Andersen introduces special guest author and critic Marina Warner.

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The Telling

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Author Ursula Le Guin talks about her latest book, The Telling, about the distant future on a far planet.

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