Alison is a historical biographer and novelist. She examines the life of Mary Boleyn as the sister who lost the king to her sister Anne.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Ana Menendez says the younger generation of Cuban-Americans are completely Americanized and the older generation wouldn’t give up the standard of living they’ve grown used to in Miami.
Anne Carson is a writer who constantly rearranges poetry's furniture. As a translator, essayist, critic and poet, she's constantly forging new forms. In this UNCUT interview, she and Jim Fleming talk poems, old and new.
Michael Gurian says the second half of our lives has three distinct stages that shape our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
Find out what brain imaging technology can tell us about the experiences of Franciscan nuns and Pentecostalists at prayer.
Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn talks about Frederick Law Olmsted’s revolutionary plan to use the processes of nature to clean up human damage to the environment.
It's a sad fact that the number of suicides has exploded in recent decades. Writer Jennifer Hecht, who's lost two friends to it, makes a philosophical argument against suicide.
Chef Alice Medrich talks with Anne Strainchamps about her latest cookbook, “A Year in Chocolate: Four Seasons of Unforgettable Desserts.”
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