Novelist Jacqueline Mitchard was one of the judges for the 2002 National Book Awards. She talks about the experience.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Could the Islamic Jihad forge an alliance with the Aryan Nations? James Jones is an authority on religious terrorism; he says militant religious groups are beginning to collaborate.
Long-time hospice worker, Karen Reppen shares some of her favorite resources for dealing with grief and loss.
Jack Vitek tells Anne Strainchamps that Generoso Pope was inspired by people's fascination with the gruesome.
After nearly three decades together, Brian Kaufman and Martin Swinger recently got hitched on the first day gay marriage became legal in the state of Maine.
Harvard law professor Jeannie Suk says she's recently heard students demand trigger warnings before her lectures on rape, or ask that she not talk about the subject at all. She tells Steve Paulson that it’s more important than ever to teach students about rape law, because when it comes to sex, the line between what’s legal and what’s criminal is rapidly shifting.
Poet Rochelle Hurt is from Youngstown, Ohio. Now that she's moved away, she misses home. And the rust.
Jack El-Hai talks about Walter Freeman, the man who invented and promoted the surgical technique called the lobotomy.
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