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08.29.08
First Stop in the New World

Imagine Mexico City as a new world hub.

08.28.08
The Girl From Foreign

‘So are you Muslim or are you Jewish?’

08.27.08
Why We Watched

A historian examines the mental landscape that allowed the Holocaust to happen.

08.26.08
We Are Soldiers Still

Former foes from the Vietnam War meet in the middle, 30 years later.

Brad Knickerbocker talks with Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway

08.25.08
City of Refuge

A new novel offers an impassioned take on life in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina.

08.23.08
The Black Tower

A mystery about a lost king and the real-life convict who became the world's first modern detective.

08.22.08
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

Giordano Bruno was a philosopher before his time.

08.21.08
The Wrecking Crew

Thomas Frank takes on the capitol and a legacy of government as business.

08.20.08
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Paul Theroux retraces his epic railway journey, 30 years later.

08.19.08
What happened to Anna K.

A modern take on a tragic romance.

Yvonne Zipp talks with author Irina Reyn.

08.18.08
The Underneath

A mystical tale even adults will love.

08.16.08
White Heat

The deep and distant friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

08.15.08
The Wild Places

Nature writer Robert Macfarlane takes a modern trek through Britain’s changing lands.

Todd Wilkinson talks with author Robert Macfarlane.

Todd Wilkinson

08.14.08
Dry Storeroom No. 1

The untold stories of London’s Natural History Museum.

08.13.08
The Lace Reader

The complications and unexpected twists of this Salem mystery are part of its charm.

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