Noah Adams tells Jim Fleming that researching his book "Far Appalachia" let him learn about his own family’s origins in Kentucky.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A portrait of Kathputli, India's last remaining magician's colony.
Kalamu Ya Salaam is a writer, film-maker and producer who evacuated New Orleans just ahead of the storm.
Parker Palmer is a writer and educator who's spent a lot of time thinking about the question, "What makes life worth living?"
Peter Turchi tells Steve Paulson that both map-making and writing place great importance on the empty spaces.
A recent study of DNA from Neanderthal bones changed everything we thought we knew.
Kelley Eskridge is a fiction writer, essayist and screenwriter. Her latest collection of short stories is called "Dangerous Space." Three of the stories feature a compelling character named Mars whose gender is never revealed.
"Sonata Mulattica," tells the story of George Bridgetower, the mixed race violinist who first performed and bore the original dedication of what we now know as "The Kreutzer" sonata.
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