Charles de Lint has pioneered a new contemporary mythic fiction. His new novel is "Widdershins."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jeff VanderMeer recommends "The Other Side" by Alfred Kubin.
Brian Doherty is the author of "This Is Burning Man." He tells Anne Strainchamps about this annual free-form arts festival in the Nevada desert.
Darrin McMahon is the author of “Happiness: A History.” He tells Jim Fleming the Founding Fathers equated happiness with virtue...
Emily Gould became an Internet celebrity for her writing on Gawker, a popular New York City blog.
"Gifts make slaves like whips make dogs" is an anthropologist's tale of inter-cultural difference in gift exchanges.
David Graeber takes us on a tour of gift giving, and gift economies. He also takes a swing at the question of whether it's possible to give a truly selfless gift.
Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International magazine and the author of “The Future of Freedom: Liberal Democracy at Home and Abroad.” He talks about how free elections are not the answer for the third world.
Eric Nuzum's memoir, "Giving Up the Ghost," is a true story about feeling haunted -- by a ghost, a girl, and his past as a troubled teen growing up in the wasteland of American suburbia.
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