Sheila Heti

The Mexican-American author opens the wounds his father inflicted in a eulogistic debut that is as much about the U.S.-Mexico border as it is about healing.

Host Jonathan Bastian talks with Josh Cohen about the cultivation of healthy aimlessness.

Documentarian Jonas Poher Rasmussen long wanted to tell the story of his friend, who fled Afghanistan as a child and ended up alone in a Danish town.

On this Martin Luther King Jr.

On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” Wasserman joins host Robert Scheer to talk about the larger-than-life writer they both greatly admired, but also the flesh-and-bones woman they…

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Jonathan Bastian talks with psychologist Paul Bloom about the role that hardship and pain play in living a good life.

Paolo Sorrentino's "The Hand of God" is much less serious than it sounds, though far from frivolous.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi has won two Oscars and could be up for a third. His new movie “A Hero” is on this year’s shortlist for Best International Film.