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Episode List:
How car culture swallowed America
The first biography of Geoffrey Chaucer in a generation explores the places that inspired the English poet
How 19th-century beef created modern America
How movement, gesture, and spatial reasoning form the foundation of thoughts
A philosopher digs into the subversive meaning of “cuteness”
Looking to America’s history of experimental suburbs to solve the housing crisis
A glimpse into the inner workings of a polyphonic publishing house
Robert Alter talks about capturing the art of the original Hebrew
Writing women back into battle
Meet Lillian Smith, forgotten southern radical
