Jane Yolen likes to re-invent the stories about King Arthur. In her version, it’s Guinevere who first pulls the sword from the stone!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Judith Claire MItchell's first novel “The Last Day of the War” is set just after World War I, when Europe's peace brokers decided to ignore the Armenian massacres. She talks about the painful legacy of that decision, 100 years later.
Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.
Meir Shalev tells Jim Fleming that he thinks the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem reached at the conclusion of that war was a just one and that the parties should return to the 1948 agreement.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon.” He says that farm animals have rich, complex emotional lives.
Jonnie Hughes talks about about his book, "On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)."
Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi talks about her book, “The Pearl That Broke Its Shell,” as well as the Afghan custom of Bacha Posh – in which a girl is allowed to dress as a boy.
Mark Robert Rank tells Steve Paulson that American society is structured to accept a certain amount of poverty but that other capitalist societies have chosen to do things differently.
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