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There’s no English translation for the Dutch word “Gezellig." Are there things that can never be understood, expressed or experienced outside their home culture? We’re wandering the unmarked maps of cultural translation! Gezellig!; Food in Translation with Jonathan Gold; Timely Translations of the Talmud; Listening to Zambia; J-Pop! Music East and West; Political Culture Divide.

a lifetime of pushing the creative envelope. Jim Fadiman on Psychedelics; Suzzy Roche on "Wayward Saints"; Austin Kleon on "Steal Like an Artist"; Kenneth Goldsmith on "Uncreative Writing".

It’s Art & Craft week at TTBOOK, but we’re not gluing macaroni to cardboard.  From the halls of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, to MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms... what we make shapes our future. What Are You Making?; Craft, Reconsidered - Glenn Adamson; Inside Out Art; Crafting Technology; Making Punk - Richard Hell.

Hear that?  It's the soothing sound of silence.  We'll have much more, including "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"; one man's quest for absolute silence; and John Cage's 4'33."              Susan Cain on "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"; George Michelsen Foy on "Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence"; Kyle Gann on "No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"; Garret Keizer on "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise".

The debate about how to fix America’s schools rages on, while millions of parents simply opt out of the system.  We’re re-thinking education, from college programs for the incarcerated to a call for the end of standardized tests. Alfie Kohn on Progressive Education; Astra Taylor and Dana Goldstein on the Schooling Debate; Jody Lewen on the Prison University Project; Sean Pica on Earning His Degree in Prison.