Temple Grandin @ALOUDla

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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum

Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin brings her singular perspective to the thrilling journey through the revolution in the understanding of autism. She introduces advances in neuroimaging and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scans from numerous studies.

Interview with Authors Mark Gevisser and Eric Cervini

Blaine Harden and Adam Johnson: Two Writers on North Korea (short clip)

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

The Rocket’s Red Glare: Politics in Art and Poetry

$Ayad Akhtar and Amy Waldman: Two Novelists on The Lives of American Muslims Before and After 9/11 In conversation with Louise Steinman, curator, ALOUD Akhtar’s American Dervish and Waldman’s The Submission, both explore the lives of American Muslims, one in pre-9/11 suburbia and the other in post-9/11 Manhattan. In Akhtar’s family drama, a father and son are fractured by their understandings of Islam. In Waldman’s story, a city is outraged when a Muslim architect wins a blind competition to design the 9/11 Memorial. Following the conflicts within and between religions, these two brilliant debut novels grapple with identity, community, and a country in crisis.$

Rasquachismo in Art and Life: Cheech Marin in conversation with Josh T Franco

“A culture of profound spiritual knowledge” - Sandra Cisneros on Mexico