Novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux tells Steve Paulson about the time he was held captive in Africa.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nina Paley has made a film using animation, Indonesian shadow puppets and a ‘20s era jazz singer to re-tell the story from the Ramayana of the marriage of the Hindu god Rama and his wife, Sita.
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."
Novelist Mary Gordon used to bristle at the label "Catholic writer," but she's made peace with it now.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
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