Jem Rolls runs poetry cabarets and poetry slams in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Julie Phillips is the author of "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon."
Photographer Michael Nye made portraits of the mentally ill and homeless people in San Antonio, where he lives. He also recorded their stories.
In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.
Kayla Williams tells Anne Strainchamps that women soldiers feel sexism from their fellow soldiers, even in war zones, and that it complicates their lives.
John Vaillant's book, "The Tiger", is about a rare Amur tiger who starts killing people in a remote corner of Siberia where there is a huge trade in tiger poaching because of demand in nearby China.
Joseph Romm talks about how Iceland plans to become the first country in the world to become 100% independent of fossil fuels by using their boundless geothermal energy to create hydrogen cells to power their motor vehicles.
Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
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