The Latest from Big Think

A conversation with the Senior Editor of EnlightenNext magazine.

The relation between the mind and sexual response is still fertile ground for investigation.

It’s a mystery that Rutgers psychology professor Barry Komisaruk is trying to solve. Men seem to be immune from the problem.

Rutgers psychologist Barry Komisaruk says that men and women use the same language to describe climaxing.

A conversation with the Rutgers psychologist and author of the upcoming book, “The Orgasm Answer Guide.”

The opera singer is a night owl who hates to miss a beat.

In his imposing baritone, Thomas Hampson cautions aspiring opera singers that “Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

From the mall to the car, music is always in our ears. Opera singer Thomas Hampson discusses the impact that technology has on song.

The classical musician explains Walt Whitman’s begrudging encounter with Italian opera, and the indelible mark this meeting has had on the American song.

Classical musician Thomas Hampson recounts a singing childhood with an operatic debut at age 19.

A conversation with the classical musician and New York Philharmonic’s first Artist in Residence.

Between America’s bullying sense of patriotism and its increasingly divided populace, it’s difficult for a writer to call the land home. Yet, insists John Irving, if he’s going to “pick […]

With its complete disregard for screenwriters and endless, seemingly luck-based, collaborative process, it’s a wonder anybody with literary sympathies can stomach cinema culture. Despite all this, John Irving wonders if […]

After the publication of the “World According to Garp” and numerous other bestsellers, John Irving does not really have to worry about his career. But, for those looking to break […]

The tension between John Irving, John Updike and Tom Wolfe was overplayed and misguided, says the novelist. The real sparks would fly, he says, if he ran into a few […]

With their richly textured characters, intensely visible milieux and wondrous storylines, no novels, says John Irving, have surpassed the splendor and sense of eminence of the nineteenth century novelists.

While John Irving may have never won a major championship as a wrestler, his experience in the sport has equipped him with the stamina and discipline necessary to struggle through […]

For John Irving, whose sprawling novels can take years to complete, one of the most significant challenges of writing is creating the sense that the words on the page are […]

The famed novelist explains why even considering the act strikes many with a sense of anxiety and impending doom.

For John Irving, the need for a daily ration of solitude was his strongest “pre-writing” moment as a child.