Episodes
Back Results for: Humanities
Diva nation: Female icons from Japanese cultural history
The many lives of Michelangelo
Saint Peter, according to Mark
Frankenstein, the Concert: How to Create a Musical Monster
How to Sit on the Iron Throne: Power and Violence in "Game of Thrones" and History
Good Gaucho Gone Bad: The Creole Drama
The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Love music across time
Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story
Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual
Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving we know and love was manufactured
"Do You Like Scary Movies?" Horror Films & Things That Make Us Scream
Theater for Health
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
The Philosophy of Cancer
Pain: A Cultural History
Venus, Deconstructed
Galen and the Elephant's Heart
The Non-sense of art
Shame: Friend or Enemy?
Grief and Memoir: Writing about the Tough Stuff
On Plot: Captain Happen & Other Devices
Voice and Vocation in Nonfiction
Poetic Elements
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean Theme
Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web
Claude Monet and the science of style
Violence and Memory
Remembering Baghdad
The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in Early Modern Europe
Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene
Getting Lost with Radiolab: A Conversation with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
The Birth of Theater As We Know It
Why Shakespeare?
The Real Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare: In the Park & in the Streets
Memories of Chinese New Year
How to Write a Bad Poem
Faith and protest in Ferguson
Anarchism and dissent in medieval Islam
Being "post-Protestant"
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant two-party system
The Mormon Citizen
Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation
Chinese Writing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
God, oil, and pipeline politics
In birth control we trust
The Politician and the Poet
Courting the Muse
Pranking Emily Dickinson
Untethered Histories
A Mirror World
Brave Genius
Please Burn After Reading
Behind the Mask, Part 2: The Evolution of a Genre
Behind the Mask, Part 1: Superheroes and Supervillains
The Foreign Language Question
Youth Poets Take the Stage
Uncovering Numismatics
Pearl Curran: "Ghost"-writer
Restless souls
The Ghost in the Machine
A Room of One's Own
Magical Realism
Slippery Nonfiction
Translating Dante
Coming of Age
Art and nationhood
FB eyes
Girlhood in Hollywood
Rock and revolution
Who should sing "Ol' Man River"?
Stripes and scars
A life in verse: A Conversation with Carl Phillips and Timothy Moore
Classical Theater
A Tale of Dual Cities
In the Next Room
City of the Big Shoulders
City of the Big Shoulders, Part II
The Many Lives of Apollonius
"Reperformance" and Memory
Creating a Federal Government
A Man of Faith and Science: Pope Benedict XIV
"Postmemory" and the Second Generation
