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  • Rebel With a Cause: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

    “It’s all right; I’m a Unitarian,” says Elizabeth Marshall Thomas as we settle into chairs in front of the altar of the Unitarian Universalist First Parish Church in Cambridge, Mass., to talk.

  • Not Your Summer Camp: Anton DiSclafani

    On an ordinary January day, which was also the day after Anton DiScalfani’s manuscript went out on submission, she received some extraordinary news.

  • Life at the End of the Day: Sue Halpern

    It is a raw, windy morning in late April in Vermont, but at least it’s not snowing, as it did, according to locals, three times the previous week.

  • Meet Montaro Caine

    Over the last 30 years, revered Academy Award–winning actor, director, activist, gentleman, and author Sidney Poitier has examined his life at different periods.

  • Too Angry to Pray? Ian Punnett

    Ian Punnett writes what he knows.

  • Enjoying the Work of God: Patty Kirk

    Patty Kirk's Christian equation used to look like this: Duty + Guilt = Spiritual Value.

  • The Wisdom of Islam: Jamal Rahman

    Imam Jamal Rahman describes the spiritual life as a quest to become "a more complete human being."

  • Everyday Spirituality: Mary Hayes Grieco

    Two decades ago, when she published The Kitchen Mystic, (Hazeldon, 1992), Mary Hayes Grieco got the feeling it was a book that would be with her for a long time.

  • Helping the Living Help the Dying: David Swanson

    For David Swanson, Everlasting Life (Baker Books, June) is the book he's always wanted to write. As senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Fla., he's been in many situations involving dying and grieving people.

  • One Mother to Another: Caryn Rivadeneira

    Caryn Rivadeneira has had her struggles as a mother of three. She's been short-tempered, locked herself in a room to avoid the kids, and stood by and watched while her child had a major meltdown. Haven't we all?

  • American Classic: Philipp Meyer

    The Son, Philipp Meyer's epic American multigenerational second novel, out this June from Ecco.

  • Writing What She Knows: Jeannette Walls

    It’s easy to dispense with the usual formalities with Jeannette Walls. Even upon first meeting, Walls, 53, feels like an old friend. Our interaction is not so much a formal interview, but, rather, a lively conversation about her new novel, The Silver Star (Scribner, June).

  • Poetry Profiled 2013

    These four poets cross (and break across) all kinds of lines, joining personal and public history and traditional and experimental styles.

  • Where Is Peter Hessler?

    In 2006, Peter Hessler was in Beijing coming off the success of National Book Award–finalist Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present (HarperCollins, 2006), his second book about China.

  • Pessimist? Not Really…Charles Simic

    For Charles Simic—one of America’s most famous poets, a former poetry editor of the Paris Review and former U.S. Poet Laureate, and perhaps one of the best-known poets writing in English—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s publication of New and Selected Poems: 1962–2012 is an especially powerful event; until now, US readers had to buy two “selected poems” volumes, one from Braziller representing Simic’s early poems and another from Harcourt, gathering poems from Simic’s books since the mid-80s.

  • Close to Home: NoViolet Bulawayo

    NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel, We Need New Names (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur Books, May 21) is set in a government sponsored program of forced relocation.

  • Past, Present: Gail Godwin

    Gail Godwin has been keeping a journal since she was 12. And she’s still writing daily entries today, 18 books and more than 60 years later.

  • This is What Democracy Looks Like: David Graeber

    As a political philosophy, anarchism encompasses much more than this clichéd stereotype.

  • Shocking Pink Is the New Black: Patricia Volk

    Patricia Volk believes that everyone has read a transformative book, usually encountered just before the onset of adolescence.

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