Chelsea Cain wrote “Confessions of A Teen Sleuth: A Parody.” As she tells Anne, her book sets the record straight.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett writes some of the most beautiful fiction we know about scientists. The stories in her new collection, "Archangel" explore the history of knowledge through five linked characters. After reading it, we're awfully glad she gave up biology to write fiction.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman is the author of "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives." He tells...
How accurate is Barack Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father? In this UNCUT interview, Steve Paulson talks with acclaimed biographer David Maraniss about Obama’s real coming-of-age story, his struggle with racial identity and his early political ambitions.
Rapper Baba Brinkman tells Anne Strainchamps that Geoffrey Chaucer’s work has a lot in common with the language of hip hop music.
Deborah Madison talks with Anne Strainchamps about the growing popularity of farmers’ markets.
Christopher Caldwell talks with Steve Paulson about the European discomfort with the rising tide of Muslim immigration.
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.
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