Joan Wylie Hall, author of “Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction,” talks with Steve Paulson...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Looking for a spring read? If you've got a taste for Scandinavian crime fiction, Jens Lapidus's "Easy Money" might satisfy. In this NEW and UNCUT interview, Lapidus tells Steve Paulson that he sees himself as the anti-Stieg Larsson. A movie based on the novel is due to be released this summer. Enjoy!
Austerity is a choice, and some question if it's a good one.
Karen Michel got to know her neighbors by asking them three questions about the meaning of life.
John McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.”
Poet Molly Peacock's biography of the 18th century paper artist, Mary Delaney.
Keren David is a young adult author who has imagined just what living in the Witness Protection Program might mean.
The evidence is mounting... "we" are mostly who we think we are. Our identities are mental constructs, cobbled together from memory and stories. Jonathan Adler gives us a crash course in narrative identity and mental health.
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