Lieutenant Shannon Kilkoyne talks about her experience as a female soldier in Iraq.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Moshin Hamid shares many characteristics with the central character of his novel, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist."
Healing democracy, one living room at a time. Joan Blades and Parker Palmer introduce us to a grassroots movement that brings small groups of people together across bitter political divisions, to help them find common ground.
Kathleen Morris talks about her experience with the mental habit monastics used to describe a kind of frantic escapism and aversion to other people. It's similar, but not identical, to the modern disease of depression.
Stephen Marche is the author of "How Shakespeare Changed Everything." He tells Anne Strainchamps why he thinks Shakespeare is the most important figure in history who influenced everything from starlings to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
John Spalding is a humor columnist for the on-line magazine Belief Net, and the author of “A Pilgrim’s Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City.”
Neda Ulaby, NPR reporter and cultural critic, talks with Jim Fleming about the film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."
Animal behaviorist Patricia McConnell is the author of "For the Love of a Dog" and the host of the public radio program "Calling All Pets."
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