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In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, lauded poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America.
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Novella Carpenter in conversation with Evan Kleinman. In Carpenter's Farm City, urban and rural collide in this wry inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.
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One of America's most performed and admired composers, Adams (Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic) helped shape the landscape of contemporary classical music. His new memoir reveals the inner workings of his creative process and illuminates the recent history of music-making.
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Jonah Lehrer draws on cutting-edge research and real-world experience to arm us with the tools we need to think harder (and smarter).
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Celebrate this magnificent author and her new novel, A Mercy.
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Philosopher and cultural critic, Slavoj Zizek, discusses the concept of violence.
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A panel discussion at the downtown Central Library featuring author Paul Roberts along with Bill Reinert and Dr. J. Gutterman.
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A panel discussion at the downtown Central Library featuring author Paul Roberts along with Bill Reinert and Dr. J. Gutterman.
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Pico Iyer explores the hidden life, the singular thinking, and the daily challenges of the Dalai Lama.
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Join two of America's most astute intellectuals as Michael Eric Dyson speaks with Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez about issues such as race.
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LA Times book critic Jonathan Kirsch moderates a conversation between Reza Aslan and Sam Harris, squaring off for the first time to debate the future of religion and its role in society.
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Hazel Rowley offers an intimate look at one of the world's most unconventional love stories.
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Jeffrey Sachs, author of the bestseller The End of Poverty, discusses his road map to sustainable and equitable global prosperity.
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The acclaimed poet and columnist for The Nation discusses her new book of essays dealing with sex, death, ex-lovers, politics, motherhood, aging, and learning to drive.
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Essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment, the former United States Laureate is a poet of great clarity and force.
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Alan Alda and Mike Farrell, former co-stars of M*A*S*H, both authors of recent memoirs, re-unite to discuss art, activism, family, money, and fame.
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Thirty years later, the central gay character of Tales of the City is an HIV+ gardener living in San Francisco facing issues of aging he never expected to face.
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Writer Irshad Manji joins Executive Director of the Progressive Muslim Union Ani Zonneveld and Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council Salam Al-Marayati
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In conversation with writer Vanessa Place, special introduction by Angelica Huston.
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In conversation with Bernadette Murphy, one of America's master storytellers probes the lives of her characters and how the workings of the world - both enormous events and intimate moments - define and change us.
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Jeffrey Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive and author of The Wizards of Langley discusses his global history of U.S. nuclear espionage with NPR foreign correspondent Mike Shuster.
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Packer, award-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, talks with NPR Foreign Correspondent Mike Shuster and explores the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by our most controversial foreign-policy venture since Vietnam.
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A provocative discussion about the competing interests raised by The Google Books Library Project, and whether a universal digital repository of our collective knowledge is in our future.
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James Hillman undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the psychological origins, needs, and rewards of war.
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Butler, one of the world's great science fiction writers, explores the limits of "otherness" in her new novel.
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Join two brilliant scholars of religion for a fascinating discussion on the internal conflict within Islam over the scope and outcome of the Islamic Reformation.
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Considered the pre-eminent poet of his generation in Poland, Zagajewski writes poems that allow us "to experience astonishment and to stop still in that astonishment for a long moment or two."
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The author of the worldwide bestseller, The Tulip, takes us on a thrilling adventure into botanical history, from Athens in third century BC to Padua in the 15th century.
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The author of the worldwide bestseller, The Tulip, takes us on a thrilling adventure into botanical history, from Athens in third century BC to Padua in the 15th century
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Franklin, one of the country's great historians, has dedicated his life to the pursuit of equality. He discusses that odyssey with Tavis Smiley, one of America's premier journalists.
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In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, lauded poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America.
-
Novella Carpenter in conversation with Evan Kleinman. In Carpenter's Farm City, urban and rural collide in this wry inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.
-
One of America's most performed and admired composers, Adams (Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic) helped shape the landscape of contemporary classical music. His new memoir reveals the inner workings of his creative process and illuminates the recent history of music-making.
-
Jonah Lehrer draws on cutting-edge research and real-world experience to arm us with the tools we need to think harder (and smarter).
-
Celebrate this magnificent author and her new novel, A Mercy.
-
Philosopher and cultural critic, Slavoj Zizek, discusses the concept of violence.
-
A panel discussion at the downtown Central Library featuring author Paul Roberts along with Bill Reinert and Dr. J. Gutterman.
-
A panel discussion at the downtown Central Library featuring author Paul Roberts along with Bill Reinert and Dr. J. Gutterman.
-
Pico Iyer explores the hidden life, the singular thinking, and the daily challenges of the Dalai Lama.
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Join two of America's most astute intellectuals as Michael Eric Dyson speaks with Los Angeles Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez about issues such as race.
