Gordon Grice is an English professor and a life-long insect hobbyist. He tells Steve Palson about the praying mantis.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Harvey Kaye talks with Steve Paulson about visionary founding father Thomas Paine.
Geraldine Brooks has written a novel which creates a fictional history for a real book – the remarkable, rare, illuminated Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Gayle F. Wald is the author of "Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
The guy who cuts in line at the coffee shop – people, usually men, who take advantage of others because they have a heightened sense of entitlement that they feel gives them a free pass. You and I have a word for these people. But is that really what you want to call the President of the United States?
Glenn Kurtz was a child prodigy of sorts and headed for a big concert career as a classical guitarist. But it didn't happen. Now he's playing again but for the joy of it.
Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.
What's behind the popularity of historical fantasy? George R. R. Martin, father of "Game of Thrones" has a theory.
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