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Slideshow: The Toaster Project
Anchor Marco Werman talks to Thomas Thwaites about his book “The Toaster Project” which chronicles Thwaites’s attempt to build a pop-up toaster entirely from scratch.
Senegalese Musician Youssou N’Dour Announces Presidential Bid
N’Dour announced his candidacy Tuesday saying that he sees running for president as a “supreme patriotic duty.”
The Fall of Communism in Bulgaria
A new book by Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of ordinary lives upended by Bulgaria’s move from communism to capitalism in the late 1980s and 90s.
‘DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You’ – Exploring the World of Cybercrime
Cyber space can be chaotic and that makes it susceptible to criminals.
An Author’s Quest to Understand the Mind of Terrorists
Ken Ballen interviewed more than 100 extremists for his new book “Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals.”
Mousavi’s Recommendation Makes “News of a Kidnapping” a Hit in Tehran
Mousavi likened his detention conditions to those described in the book.
What Seduction Means to the French
Elaine Scioliono’s book looks at the culture of seduction in all aspects of French life.
Sally Jacobs Talks About “The Other Barack”
The Boston Globe correspondent’s new book is based on President Barack Obama’s father.
Joseph Braude on his new book ‘The Honored Dead’
His new book is a murder mystery, that’s something of a microcosm of the Arab Spring.
The Jews of Lebanon
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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Nada Abdelsamad about her book and documentary film which shed light on the swindling Jewish community in her nativer Beirut, Lebanon. Download MP3
Mark Hertsgaard: Fatherhood and climate change
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Host Marco Werman speaks with journalist Mark Hertsgaard about his new found sense of urgency in reporting on the challenges of climate change since becoming a father. Hertsgaard is the author of the new book “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.” Download MP3Read an excerpt from the book
Chinese parenting style may be changing
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In her new book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua writes about the Chinese style of parenting – driving kids hard and demanding perfection. The book has generated a lot of controversy here. But as The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports from Beijing, parents in China are moving away from that style of strict parenting. Download MP3Video: Amy Chua responds to criticism
World Books Review: Visitation — Difficulty for Difficulty’s Sake?
That Jenny Erpenbeck’s latest novel, Visitation, is ambitious is unmistakable, for it is undeniably difficult and precisely crafted. Following in the footsteps of T.S. Eliot, who suggested that a difficult world as ours calls for a difficult literature, I think it a moot point as to whether the novel ultimately succeeds in its being difficult. Is it really difficult for difficulty’s sake? After finishing this novel I have to admit my own ambivalence, not based on, admittedly, its philosophical import, but because of the way it reads.
And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl
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On this first night of Chanukah, Marco Werman talks with Roger Bennett, co-author of And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Our Vinyl about his work saving decades of American Jewish music from obscurity. Download MP3
Harsh realities in children’s books
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The BBC’s Mark Coles reports on the rise of so-called ‘misery literature’ for children, books that depict real-life tragedy, including events such as the Iraq war. Are trauma and despair the right stuff for kids’ books?
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