Mark Lee was a war correspondent for the London Telegraph in East Africa. He barely made it back alive and has now written a novel called “Canal House.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize winning senior editor of the Washington Post’s Bookworld has written a memoir called “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland.”
The WPA built 650 thousand miles of highways and employed 8 and a half million people. We explore its legacy
Jill Lepore does a reality check on Tea Party claims to the founding fathers.
Ruth Ozeki's novel, "A Tale for the Time Being," is just out in paperback. Anne Strainchamps talks to Ozeki about her book, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Liza Dalby is the first Western woman to become a geisha. Dalby tells Steve Paulson what being a geisha means and explains why modern women have trouble wearing kimonos.
Michelle Kennedy tells Anne Strainchamps how she ended up homeless and how she managed to support herself and her three children.
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