Pir Zubair Shah is a Pakistani journalist who risked his life reporting for the New York Times from his homeland -- Waziristan, in the heart of Taliban-controlled Pashtun area. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, but had to leave his country.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Marcus Du Sautoy talks with Jim Fleming about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis and why it’s such an important puzzle for mathematicians.
Lynn Sharon Schwartz is a veteran traveler and novelist but has admitted to herself that at this stage in her life, she is over traveling.
Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American Natural History Museum.
John Leland has written about "Indigo children", who may have an Indigo aura and a mission to change the world. Or they may be ordinary children with a tendency to ADHD.
Rocker Nick Cave talks with Steve Paulson about the relative freedom of writing prose versus song-writing...
Mark Leyner talks to Jim Fleming about his mind-bending, synapse-shattering new novel, "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack."
Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.
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