Novelist Marilynne Robinson talks with Anne Strainchamps about the role of the soul in the age of modern science.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton shares some of her favorite endings from modern literature with Steve Paulson.
In May of 2014, while covering the war in Syria, Anthony Loyd and photographer Jack Hill, both working for The Times of London, were kidnapped by Syrian rebels. Loyd was severely beaten and shot twice. Both were eventually able to escape to Turkey.
Martha Bayles talks with Anne Strainchamps about why we love war movies and what messages they send.
In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term "near death experience" and published the first definitive account of patients who described dying and coming back to life. He tells Steve Paulson what he's come to believe after listening to thousands of reports.
Joyce Johnson talks with Anne Strainchamps about her book and her relationship with Jack Kerouac.
You know that the first settlers called Manhattan "New Amsterdam"? But the Dutch didn't just bring their sailing prowess and placenames with them. Russell Shorto thinks that liberal Dutch ideas about politics and society came too, and shaped the New World.
Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a novel called "The Taqwacores." He made up the word: taqwa is Arabic for piety and core means hardcore.
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