Joan Wylie Hall, author of “Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction,” talks with Steve Paulson...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.
Professor of Christian philosophy Nancey Murphy tells Steve Paulson Christians would be better off without the soul.
Karen Michel got to know her neighbors by asking them three questions about the meaning of life.
Nancy Drew just turned 75 and still wields immense influence on the women who grew up reading her.
Journalist Marc Cooper tells Jim Fleming that Las Vegas has its own integrity in that all that matters there is money and the city is completely honest about that.
John McWhorter teaches linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of “Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care.”
Nicholas Harberd spent a year observing a thalecress in a country churchyard. He kept a diary.
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