Between the Sheets and In the Streets

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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A Desperate Escape

… many painful years are past,
On Latium’s happy shore you shall be cast,
Where gentle Tiber from his bed beholds
The flow’ry meadows, and the feeding folds.
There ends your toils; and there your fates provide
A quiet kingdom and a royal bride…
And now, farewell! …
I trust our common issue to your …

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Nature on Trial

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Mumbai: A Nation Betrayed, A People Forsaken

… the price of a life. We saw our humanity in tatters, our dignity in shreds, our medical infrastructure crumble and collapse. And we saw our social media feeds ablaze with cries for help, cries from anguished relatives trying to save their loved ones, pleading for a hospital bed, a doctor, an oxygen cylinder, a ventilator …

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Drawing in Young Readers

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Autumn 2021

… them in the world of Fiction.
—Ada Lovelace to Augustus De Morgan, January 1841

Do you not see that history’s high tension
Must so be broken down to each man’s end
And his frail filaments, that it may feed
Not blast all patience, love and warm invention?
—C. Day Lewis, “Sonnet for a

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Outsider Physics

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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For Every Season, a Classic Holiday Movie

… Labor Day, 1955, and everyone has the day off, but Hal offers to do back-yard work for Mrs. Potts (Verna Felton), the kindly old lady who feeds him and obligingly offers to wash his shirt, thus giving us a look at his buff, shaven chest.
The “us” in that last sentence includes Benson’s …

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Skater Boy

… subject is.

Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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All the Pretty Horses

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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