Susan Tom has adopted a dozen or so special needs children, plus has two of her own. Jonathan Karsh has made a film about her family called “My Flesh and Blood.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Julia Mickenberg tells Steve that some of the best known children's book writers were longtime political radicals.
Joe Queenan is an American married to an Englishwoman, and the author of “Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile’s Pilgrimage to the Mother Country.”
Karl Taro Greenfeld tells Jim Fleming he's never had a conversation with his brother.
Randy Olson is a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist and creator of the documentary film "Flock of Dodos."
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.
Depression can mean two things: a downturn in the economy and an illness of the psyche.
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