What can we learn about human behavior by following the course of a man who stepped out of his life and observed it from the distance of a few blocks – over the course of twenty years? What can we learn about the world by studying bugs? What can we learn about the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq by looking at a chapter in Canadian history? According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Auster, Tom Eisner and others, a lot – as you’ll discover on this week’s show.
Week (or so) in Review
A review of recent news, pressing and otherwise, with NBT journeyman news analyst Steve Almond. Produced by Julie Subrin.
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What Would Canada Do?
Crosstown Contemplation
Host Dean Olsher finds loose connections between these dots: the Whitney Biennial, the start of the war in Afghanistan, the film "Angelheart," fear, and presidential duties.
Conversations about Hawthorne
Wakefield
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story is a remarkably contemporary-seeming portrait of a man’s unpremeditated, life-changing act. Wakefield leaves his wife for a week, only to stay away twenty years, taking up secret residence just a block away from his previous life. Read here, for our radio adaptation, by writer and Hawthorne ...
Sounds of L.A.
Bugging Out
Tom Eisner is one of the world’s foremost entomologists and a professor at Cornell University. His most recent book, For Love of Insects, documents his 60-year love affair with bugs. On one of the first true days of spring, Dean Olsher, Eisner, and Eisner’s wife Maria took a walk through ...
Sounds of Spring
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