Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Maureen Adams tells Jim Fleming about the dogs who were the companions and inspiration of some of our greatest women writers.
Richard Fortey tells Anne Strainchamps why he’s been a life-long fan of trilobites, ancient water creatures who swarmed the Earth millions of years before dinosaurs.
Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
John Hasse gives Jim Fleming several examples of patriotic music and talks about the various ways they’ve been used. They explore some suggested alternatives to the national anthem.
Does science have inherent limits? Physicist Marcelo Gleiser thinks so, and he says it's liberating to know that science can only give us an incomplete picture of reality.
Marilynne Robinson is from Idaho, although she's spent years of her life on the East Coast. The Western character is something Robinson has never let go of, it still informs her life and her writing today.
Kamran Pasha has written a novel called "Mother of the Believers." It's the story of Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was very young.
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