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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú

For award-winning writer and former agent for the United States Border Patrol Francisco Cantú, the border is in his blood:…

How Memories Get Made

Terry McDermott and Gary Lynch

The world-renowned neuroscientist Gary Lynch, subject of McDermott’s new book, discusses his decades-long obsessive pursuit to uncover the mechanism by…

The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

Fritjof Capra

Drawing on more than 6,000 pages of Leonardo’s surviving notebooks, Capra reveals Leonardo-whose studies ranged from the flight patterns of…

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

Antonio Damasio

What moved humans to create cultures—intelligent systems including the arts, morality, science, government, and technology? The answer to this question…

Haiku in Zapotec: From Oaxaca to Japan and Back

Jane Hirshfield and Víctor Terán

Because of its similar celebration of the beauty of the natural world and focus on compactness, contemporary Zapotec-language poetry shares…

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

Winner of a 2017 Pulitzer Prize, historian Heather Ann Thompson sheds new light on the infamous 1971 Attica Prison riot…

The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter

Albie Sachs

As an activist lawyer and leading member of the African National Congress, Albie Sachs lost his right arm and the…

Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe

Víctor Cata, Bamby Salcedo, Maritza Sanchez

THIS PROGRAM WAS CONDUCTED IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH. Anthropologists have traced the Meso-American acceptance of people of mixed gender…

Threat of Extinction: Language Activism and Preservation

Bob Holman, Vincent Medina, Odilia Romero Hernández, and Virginia Carmelo with linguist Leanne Hinton

The essence of who we are is wrapped up in our language. What human knowledge is lost when a language…

An American Family: Being Muslim in the U.S. Military

Khizr Khan

Last fall’s presidential election brought a range of impassioned voices to the national stage, but one of the most captivating…