Barbara Kingsolver "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story...

Anne Fadiman Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was...

Craig McDonald James Ellroy, Dan Brown, Ian Rankin, George Pelacanoes, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson . . . the roster of writers interviewed in these pages includes those who...

David Zinczenko Look around at America's waistlines and you'll see belts busting all over the place. Some might say that this weight problem is won or lost at the dinner...

Spiegel and Grau Decoded is a book like no a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in...

Eli Amir “I’m an Arab Jew. I listen to classical music in the morning and Arabic music in the evening.” Surprisingly for someone so young, Nuri Imari (whose family we...

Joyce Wadler The true story that inspired David Hwang's play "M Butterfly", about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer,...

Tuvia Tenenbom   Germany, the most racist of countries less than a century ago, has for the past two years welcomed over one million refugees, more than any other European...

Michael Laitman, PhD and Anatoly Ilianov, PhD In today’s interdependent world, teaching children to compete seems as “wise” as teaching one’s left hand to outsmart the right hand. The Psychology...

Dan Millman Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and darkness,...

Craig McDonald In 2006, Craig McDonald published Art in the Blood, a collection of probing, long-form interviews with 20 major crime writers that was immediately hailed as a definitive text...

Lisa Genova Joe O’Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected...