Mark Kingwell is a Canadian philosopher who knows all about the terror of the blank page and the procrastination that leads to.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lewis Buzbee has spent his life besotted with books. He's sold them, and now he writes them.
"See them before they're gone" is the Lanza family's motto. Michael Lanza describes his quest to take his two young kids -- ages 7 and 9 -- to as many wilderness locations as possible, to see glaciers and icebergs and coral reefs, before climate change destroys them.
Lynne Truss is the author of a very popular punctuation guide. She explains her book’s title to Steve Paulson and gives several funny examples of punctuation mistakes.
Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy has written another incendiary book: "Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal."
Feeling lonely is a signal that we need to interact with others as fundamental to our well-being as signals like hunger and thirst.
Nathan Radke talks about why the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip can be seen as acting out the dilemmas of existentialism.
Pagan Kennedy is the author of “Black Livingstone,” a biography of 19th century black American missionary William Sheppard.
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