In Mark Salzman’s novel “Lying Awake,” a Carmelite nun learns that her religious raptures may be symptoms of epilepsy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nina Simonds tells Jim Fleming about dining at Singapore's Imperial Herbal restaurant, where the staff herbalist prescribes a meal for you aimed at balancing your yin and yang.
Errol Morris made a documentary about Abu Ghraib called "Standard Operating Procedure." Journalist Philip Gourevitch and Morris have written a companion book that examines what really happened at Abu Ghraib.
Hisham Aidi—an expert on globalization and social movements—discusses the role of hip hop in the French-Muslim community and the recent debates about the genre.
Lincoln Hall is an Australian mountain climber. He tells Jim Fleming about his fatal adventure on Mt. Everest, the subject of his book "Dead Lucky: Life after Death on Mount Everest."
Patrick McGilligan talks about how Alfred Hitchcock chose his leading men, and what makes “Vertigo” the cinematic classic it is.
How close are we to electing a woman as president? Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close."
In this extended interview, literary scholar Rob Nixon explains why he recently re-read all of Carson’s writing, and says her legacy endures – from her warnings about environmental toxins in “Silent Spring” to her lyrical essays about the wonder of oceans.
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