Brian Boyd: Life as We Write It
November 16, 2015
The author on what evolutionary science can teach us about art and literature, his enduring interest in Nabokov, and why a good joke never dies.
Gordon Hempton: Learning to Listen
September 15, 2015
Boundaries of Nature: The acoustic ecologist on his fight to preserve dying soundscapes, how ambient noise affects the psyche, and recasting silence as a presence.
William Finnegan: Waving, Not Drowning
August 3, 2015
The New Yorker writer on the politics of surfing, reporting from war zones, and the “weird genre” of memoir.
