Interviews

Einstein's Universe: Frank Wilczek Explains The Physicist's Massive Contributions To Science
Einstein's Universe: Frank Wilczek Explains The Physicist's Massive Contributions To Science
I n the spring of 1905, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk in Bern submitted four papers to the journal Annalen der Physik in the space of a few months. He had no laboratory,... Read more...
Reel Chaplin: Richard Schickel’s View of the Legendary Comedian
Reel Chaplin: Richard Schickel’s View of the Legendary Comedian
In the spring of 1972, Charlie Chaplin returned to Hollywood for the first time in twenty years. He had been effectively exiled from the United States in 1952, his re-entry... Read more...
Joe Nuzzolo
The Persistence of Memory: Joe Nuzzolo Explains Why Dali's Works Still Inspire, Influence Artists
In the summer of 1929, a young Salvador Dalí received a visit in Cadaqués from a group of Surrealists that included René Magritte, Louis Aragon, and Paul Éluard, who brought... Read more...
Janna Levin On Kurt Gödel: Incompleteness Theorem Is Not Just A Numbers Game
Janna Levin On Kurt Gödel: Incompleteness Theorem Is Not Just A Numbers Game
Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein used to walk home together from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, two European refugees in a quiet New Jersey town talking about physics,... Read more...
Deep Freud: Tamas Pataki Analyzes The Psyche Of A Genius
Deep Freud: Tamas Pataki Analyzes The Psyche Of A Genius
In the early hours of June 4, 1900, a book arrived in Viennese bookshops that its author was convinced would change the world. Sigmund Freud had spent four years writing The... Read more...
Looking For Hemingway: Gay Talese Talks Of Books and Men
Looking For Hemingway: Gay Talese Talks Of Books and Men
Few writers have left as indelible a mark on literature as Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). With his stripped-down prose and unflinching gaze at life’s rawest moments, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more...
Peter Bondanella
Beyond Dolce Vita: Peter Bondanella Shares Insight Into Fellini's Films and Technique
On the morning of March 12, 1993, Federico Fellini arrived at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles to receive an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. He was seventy-three years... Read more...
Getting Physical: Michio Kaku Explains Einstein’s Genius
Getting Physical: Michio Kaku Explains Einstein’s Genius
On the morning of April 18, 1955, a pathologist named Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy on Albert Einstein at Princeton Hospital and made a decision that would haunt him for the... Read more...
Michael Ruse On Charles Darwin: Evolution Is No Monkey Business
Michael Ruse On Charles Darwin: Evolution Is No Monkey Business
On the morning of September 1, 1835, HMS Beagle dropped anchor off the coast of a volcanic island in the Pacific that most Europeans had never heard of. Charles Darwin,... Read more...