Karen Armstrong talks with Anne Strainchamps about her tangled path back to God after leaving the convent.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Polkinghorne is a former physicist at Cambridge University who now devotes himself to reconciling science and religion.
Punk legend Patti Smith. 40 years ago, she came out with the seminal punk album Horses –with cover photo by her friend and lover Robert Mappelthorpe.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru. Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.
Jonatha Brooke is a singer and songwriter who was invited by Woody Guthrie's daughter to visit her famous father's archives and use some of his unpublished material. The result is an album called "The Works."
Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.
When he was a young professor, philosopher Mark Rowlands adopted a wolf named Brenin, who turned into his constant companion. He reflects on the life lessons he learned from Brenin.
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