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.
George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Assassins’ Gate.” He’s just back from his fifth trip to Iraq...
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.
In his book, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, P.D. Smith writes that city living has shaped humanity's past and laid the foundation for our future.
Gay Talese writes literary journalism. He's a master of in-depth profiles, telling his story through detailed scenes.
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.
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