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Episode List:
How car culture swallowed America
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 14, 2019
The first biography of Geoffrey Chaucer in a generation explores the places that inspired the English poet
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 07, 2019
How 19th-century beef created modern America
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, May 31, 2019
How movement, gesture, and spatial reasoning form the foundation of thoughts
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, May 17, 2019
A philosopher digs into the subversive meaning of “cuteness”
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, May 10, 2019
Looking to America’s history of experimental suburbs to solve the housing crisis
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, May 03, 2019
A glimpse into the inner workings of a polyphonic publishing house
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, April 26, 2019
Robert Alter talks about capturing the art of the original Hebrew
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, April 19, 2019
Writing women back into battle
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, April 12, 2019
Meet Lillian Smith, forgotten southern radical
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, April 05, 2019
