Earlier this year, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet handed over the last of his political power, to a secular, Harvard-educated politician. Lobsang Sangay left his fellowship and family in the United States to take up his new post, and all of its challenges.
How's this for a novel premise? Owen Lerner is a pediatric psychiatrist. One day, he's struck by lightning. He survives but he has a new obsession -- with barbecue. That's the premise behind Mary Kay Zuravleff's novel, "Man Alive!" She talks about its inspiration and the book's themes.
In this UNCUT interview, actor, playwrite and author, Najla Said talks with Anne about growing up Palestinian-American and her new book "Looking for Palestine."
Martin Gilbert is Winston's Churchill's biographer, and explains what made Churchill such a great leader during WWII.
Mimi Sheraton is the author of “The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World.” She explains what she found when she traveled to Bialystock.
Mark Barrowcliffe wasted his youth playing Dungeons and Dragons. Now he's turned his obsession into a book.
Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss talks with Steve Paulson about the cosmology of the end of the universe. The big bang will also have a big finish!
