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Burmese Daze
… 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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To Infinity (and Beyond!)
… 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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The Killers’ Canon
… 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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Karen Kinder
… one that I did for myself because I fell for the scene. He took me out to see his cows—first we saw the cows in the feedlot and then we went out to the pasture to see them. He yelled out, ‘Come, boss!’—which my dad used to say when he raised cattle—and …
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… 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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Courage Before the Thaw
… live within a mile of a large grocery store, my family, like many Alaskans, relies on wild fish and game. Most nights we open our freezer to figure out what to make for dinner. My husband and I feel lucky to have a winter’s worth of salmon, halibut, and moose to feed ourselves and
Read MoreOf a Fire on the Marsh
… on this—they want an unbroken horizon: no buildings, embankments, or woods. Unlike most sparrows, they don’t migrate. An individual dusky seems to nest, rest, and feed—on seeds, grasshoppers, crickets, spiders, sometimes a tiny crab—within a radius of only a few hundred yards, seldom more.
The nest, woven of grass stems, floats …
A Planet in Peril
… In this particular book, he introduces us to Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who in 1970 won the Nobel Prize for fathering the Green Revolution that helped feed millions of people around the world, and William Vogt, who Mann claims is the “principal founder” of modern environmentalism. Mann writes about Borlaug and Vogt both as …
Read MoreGalleries of the World
… color, space, perspective, and realism in tension with abstraction—reveals an innovator who happens to be in dialogue with a long tradition. Do you find that the most interesting artists are feeding off art history, or standing apart from it?
All art at some level is in conversation with the past. There are many ways
What Is a Dog?
… cats down for breakfast had he wanted, let them run the ship. Working from home, I quickly (and happily) assumed the role of Booker’s primary caretaker—feeding him, walking him, taking him to his vet visits, which were many, as he’d torn both back MCLs, two years apart. I remember feeling giddy and …
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