Physicist Janna Levin tells Steve Paulson why she wanted to write about mathematicians Alan Turing and Kurt Godel, and why her book is a novel.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Parker Palmer tells Jim Fleming why the soul still matters in an age of science.
Sometimes beginning again means leaving an old life behind.
For Michelle Kennedy and her three children, that led to living in their car.
Peter Yellowlees is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Queensland in Australia. His lab has built a device that recreates the aural and visual hallucinations typical of schizophrenia.
Novelist Jennifer Egan talks with Jim Fleming about the middle eastern terrorist at the heart of her novel “Look at Me,” and how she reacted to the events of September 11th.
Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.
Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the National Book Critics Circle award for her new novel, "Americanah." We went back to our archives and found this memorable interview with Adichie from 2010, when Steve Paulson spoke to her about her earlier novel "The Thing Around Your Neck."
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