In her new memoir, "Ongoingness," Sarah Manguso talks about how keeping a diary—so often considered a virture—for her became a vice. But her obsessive diary keeping changed with the birth of her first child.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Psychologist Daniel Goleman talks about "Emotional Intelligence."
He sounded the alarm about global warming over 20 years ago. Now he has a model of how to survive on our changed planet.
Fred Pearce tells Steve Paulson he went to over 30 countries and discovered people are simply taking too much water out of the world's river systems.
Dave Soldier is a neurologist with an unusual hobby. He teaches elephants to play musical instruments.
Father Abuna Elias Chacour is a Palestinian, Arab, Christian Israeli. He runs the Mar Elias Interfaith Institution, which teaches students up to 50 years old principles of religious toleration.
"New Yorker" staff writer and book critic James Wood recommends Theodor Fontane's 1894 novel, "Effi Briest."
Brian Raftery tells Jim Fleming about karaoke in Japan and the man who invented it.
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