Season 1

Another book on the Titanic? Daniel Stone, the author of "Sinkable," admits there's a fixation with that ship that collided with an ice...

When John Ikerd talks about industrial agriculture in the United States, the professor emeritus at the University of Missouri is referring to a farm s...

Those Vietnamese refugees able to escape from their war-torn homeland in the 1970s found a refuge on the Texas Gulf Coast where they engaged in shrimp...

The NRA is characterized by NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak as "the most powerful political advocacy group in the country" but he adds it...

Most of us assume the motion picture camera was brought to us by Thomas Edison or the Lumiere Brothers out of France. But Paul Fischer makes a case fo...

An enrolled member of the Ottawa Tribe and a former U.S. Air Force officer, D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas talks about the concept of the Native American warri...

In an effort to boost literacy, Maya Payne Smart has written a book to help parents get children started on the reading road."Reading For Our Liv...

It occurred to historian David Stewart, who has written extensively on the founding of America (books on James Madison, Aaron Burr and the U.S. Consti...

Douglas Wolk has read all 27,000 Marvel comics. He says it's all one big story but who among us would dare to complete such a story with all its ...

You just can’t pass up a guidebook to smell. After all, they say smell is the sense that comes closest to pure perception. Smell can collapse space an...

Dwyer Murphy believes he has the dream job: "I get to read crime fiction all day long."As the editor of the CrimeReads website, a site that ...

When Ken Auletta wrote a lengthy profile on movie producer Harvey Weinstein for New Yorker magazine in 2002, Weinstein didn't like it.That was be...