Nuala O’Faolain tells Jim Fleming one of her novels is based on an adulterous affair across class lines in Ireland during the potato famine.
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"Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong"
Journalist Jean Zimmerman says that Americans are in the process of throwing away centuries of domestic skills and traditions.
Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.
Darren Aronofsky's new film "Noah" is getting a lot of buzz, in part because the flood story is a crucial event in the creationist explanation for the origins of life. To find out why, Steve Paulson spoke to the leading historian of creationism, Ronald Numbers.
Back in 1969, Marlantes was dropped in the middle of a jungle in Vietnam - at the age of 23, put in charge of the lives of 40 other young men. He was not psychologically or spiritually prepared for that or for what came after the war.
Robert Fuller is the author of "Wonder" - the first in-depth look at one of humanity's most important emotions.
Jill Fredston tells Jim Fleming how avalanches happen. She says it has everything to do with the terrain and the condition of the snowpack.
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