The founder of Storahtelling and the Lab/Shul re-interprets Yom Kippur as a Day of Forgiveness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ron Chernow's recently published "George Washington: a life" logs in at 900 pages, one of the most acclaimed historical biographies of the past year.
Steve Paulson talks with writers and editors about the enduring influence of Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita."
Rumspringa is the Amish custom of allowing sixteen year olds a period of total freedom to experience the temptations of the world before they choose the strictures of a traditional Amish life
Shaun Alexander tells Steve Paulson what chess does for him and why he thinks it’s good for inner city youth.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a biologist, a writer, and a member of the Potawatomi nation. In her essay collection, "Braiding Sweetgrass," she weaves scientific knowledge and indigenous wisdom into a deeper understanding of the nature of plant life.
Paul Koudounaris has spent the past decade traveling around the world, climbing into church crypts and bone chambers and taking photos at over 250 burial sites in 30 countries. He's discovered chapels decorared with skeletons and underground caves filled with skulls—among other things. In this interview, he tells us how he began his obsession with displays of death.
Ted Chiang talks about his short-story collection, "Stories of Your Life and Others."
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