"Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini's got a new book out. "And the Mountains Echoed" is a tale of love that spans the globe, from Afghanistan to America to Greece. In this UNCUT interview he talks about the book and the nations through which its tale weaves.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gioia Timpanelli uses her poetic sensibility to write prose novels.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht states Immanuel Kant's concept of Beauty is useful when applied to the world of sports, and that such Beauty approaches the sacred.
Geoffrey O’Brien grew up in a musical family. He says that the advent of recording changed our relationship to music - it made the past permanent.
Holly Black tells Anne Strainchamps what she thinks children get out of reading about magic or alternative realities.
Ghita Schwarz wrote about "A Case of Boredom" for the February issue of "The Believer" magazine.
Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts are the co-authors of "The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation."
Desperate times may call for desperate measures. But do we really want to put space mirrors into clouds to deflect the sun's rays? Economist Clive Hamilton outlines the promise and perils of geoengineering.
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