Maggie Nelson recommends "Close to the Knives" by David Wojnarowicz.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.
Lorne Ladner tells Jim Fleming that accepting the inevitability of one’s own death leads a person to truly appreciate living while you can.
Robert Orsi talks about the role of angels and saints in Catholicism pre-Vatican II and insists that people’s relationships with them are real, whether or not the spirits are.
Novelist Marilynne Robinson talks with Anne Strainchamps about the role of the soul in the age of modern science.
When you think about something as specific as the Paleo Diet you kinda gotta ask yourself how someone today really knows what someone ate, say, 15,000 years ago. So we thought, why not ask an expert? Say an anthropologist who is an expert on the subject?
According to Nathaniel Philbrick, Melville’s classic “Moby Dick,” will always be worth our time and attention, no matter the age. He makes the case for reading what he calls a kind of "American Bible."
Healing democracy, one living room at a time. Joan Blades and Parker Palmer introduce us to a grassroots movement that brings small groups of people together across bitter political divisions, to help them find common ground.
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