Geraldine Brooks has written a novel which creates a fictional history for a real book – the remarkable, rare, illuminated Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight. When his tour ended, he collected his poems into a book called "Here, Bullet." This one is called "A Night in Blue."
In his book, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, P.D. Smith writes that city living has shaped humanity's past and laid the foundation for our future.
Medievalist Bruce Holsinger writes historical fiction starring some names familiar to English majors -- Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. They were poets but in Holsinger's novels they also deal in secrets.
Gordon Grice is an English professor and a life-long insect hobbyist. He tells Steve Palson about the praying mantis.
Harvey Kaye talks with Steve Paulson about visionary founding father Thomas Paine.
Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez served as Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, during which period the scandal at Abu Ghraib took place.
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