Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her most noted novel is called “Half of a Yellow Sun.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Betsy Israel tells Jim Fleming our society has always been suspicious of unmarried women and talks about examples from Louisa Mat Alcott to Ally McBeal.
Caitlin Matthews is a Celtic scholar and storyteller. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about the various myths of a lost paradise and how we can find it within ourselves.
After all the debates about the Muslim world, it’s refreshing to look back at one of the world’s great mystics - the Sufi poet Rumi.
"Independent People" by Halldór Laxness reviewed by author David Mitchell ("Cloud Atlas")
Frank Kermode tells Steve Paulson that Shakespeare revolutionized the English language and worked within a culture that got most of its information from listening.
Emily Rapp had her foot amputated when she was 4, and the rest of the leg at age 8.
In his book "Back to Our Future" David Sirota says the proof is in the staying power of 80s pop culture.
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