Robert Fuller is the author of "Wonder" - the first in-depth look at one of humanity's most important emotions.
Robert Fuller is the author of "Wonder" - the first in-depth look at one of humanity's most important emotions.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the celebrated husband and wife team who've translated many of the great Russian writers. They've just come out with a new version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
Three physicists just won the Nobel Prize for their discovery that the universe is rapidly expanding.
Australian Les Murray is considered by many literary critics to be the greatest living poet in English today.
Plant biologist Nicholas Harberd took a year off to study a common weed - the thalecress - that he found growing in a country churchyard.
Lupe Fiasco is a devout Muslim whose album "Food and Liquor" went to number one of the rap album charts and won three Grammy Nominations.
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Mary Karr tells Steve Paulson that this volume begins at the time of her sexual awakening and that most female writers skip over those awkward adolescent years.