Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explains how kindness went out of fashion, and why we need it more than ever.

“Death be not proud.” “My love is a fever.” We look at 500 years of poets making sonnets.

Fred Astaire danced his way into American legend—the original dancing superstar. We look at the man behind the top hat and tails.

We look at the addictive, cathartic world of Internet confession.

We talk with classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, about the guitar as bridge between cultures. Plus: video of Fisk performing an encore in our studio.

Cable powerhouse Lauren Zalaznick, the force behind Bravo and Oxygen, “Real Housewives” and “Tori & Dean,” on creating television for women.

What did they eat in the Great Depression? We’ll find out, and tuck in. Plus: video of Tom and our guests tasting authentic ’30s recipes.

Author Colson Whitehead on his new novel, “Sag Harbor,” a coming-of-age story in Long Island’s African-American summer community.

The big new Star Trek prequel hits theaters. We’ll talk with critics, trekkies, and Mr. Spock himself — Leonard Nimoy — about the return of Star Trek.

Bob Dylan talked at length with historian Douglas Brinkley for Rolling Stone. We talk with Brinkley about Dylan and America now.

Novelist Arthur Phillips on music, muses, mixtapes and his new novel, “The Song Is You.”

Fred Astaire danced his way into American legend—the original dancing superstar. We’ll look at the man behind the top hat and tails.

We’re heading into the woods to look at logging today and Jack McEnany’s new book “Brush Cat.”

Who needs an iPod if you’ve got poetry in your head? We’ll talk about the powerful pleasures of learning poems by heart.

Facebook’s social network is 200 million strong and growing fast. But the culture and its expectations are changing. We’ll look at the Facebook evolution.

The last episode airs, and we look at the long grip of the hospital drama on the American imagination.

We got a great range of reactions to today’s show on “bromances,” both on air from callers (and Tom and Jack), and online in the comments section. One view we heard a lot: that the terms we were headlining — bromance, man-crush, and so on — weren’t the angle we should be taking: one commenter [...]

Are we in the age of “bromance”? The buddy flick “I Love You, Man” has guys talking again about male bonding.

The true story of Bonnie and Clyde, 75 years after America’s most famous outlaw lovers went down in a hail of bullets.

We talk with the Blind Boys of Alabama about their new album, and making music, “Down in New Orleans.”