Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie splits her time between the U.S. and her native Nigeria...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Myers tells Jim Fleming humans are terrible at predicting what will make them happy and seem to be much more resilient than they give themselves credit for.
E.L. Doctorow's latest novel is called "The March" and is about the devastating effect on the South during the Civil War of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Primatologist Barbara J. King tells Steve Paulson about her belief that the rudimentary qualities of religion can be seen in the behavior of the great apes.
"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
Dalton Conley grew up in the housing projects of New York's lower East Side. But he went to school in a wealthy white neighborhood.
Frank Kermode tells Steve Paulson that Shakespeare revolutionized the English language and worked within a culture that got most of its information from listening.
Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
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