Julie Norem is the author of “The Power of Negative Thinking.” She tells Jim Fleming about her strategy of “defensive pessimism,” and explains the good it can do.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Lauret Savoy believes too many nature writers focus on pristine wilderness and neglect the gritty reality of the places where people actually live - in cities, for instance, maybe even near toxic waste sites - which forces us to grapple with questions about race and poverty.
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals. She tells Jim Fleming how she became a collector of mealtime blessings.
Robert Price thinks people would be better off if they stuck to mainstream religion rather than what he considers the "dumbed down" versions.
Every spring in Japan, people crowd under blooming cherry trees. They're signs of spring, and remembrances of life's transience.
Master gardener Sadafumi Uchiyama says the blossoms are the quintessential representation of the Japanese principle of mono no aware... beauty in the intertwining of life and death.
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