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Oh faithless and perverse generation? How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?—Matthew 17.
Our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all types, and their mysterious hold over our imaginations.
People struggle to invent words adequate to cope with death.
Have mandatory minimum sentences gone too far?
We hear the story of one African-American single mother who recorded her family's life over the course of seven months.
Stories of people who are trying to make invisible worlds visible.
What happens when the tension of family dynamics collides with the pressure of capitalist market forces.
Stories of people drawn to some idea, some picture, some "thing" that they just want to be.
We want to believe our lives can be changed by a set of ideas contained in a book.
Through our crimes, we express who we are.
It turns out that not falling in love, not doing our jobs, not spending time with our families is every bit as vivid and complicated an experience as doing something.
A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970s in Oakland, California.
Two do-gooders try to change things in their hometown for the better. But the more they try, the more people resent them.
What happens if you're too good at throwing everything out and starting over?
Stories of the lives of prisoners in the United States, and the lives of their families.