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The playwright’s debut novel, Al-Tounsi, explores just how much Supreme Court justices’ personal lives influence their legal rulings.
The novelist tackles the complexity of human touch — or the lack thereof.
Kurt Newman, MD, is president and CEO of Children’s National in Washington, DC. His 30-year career as a pediatric surgeon inspired him to write Healing Children, a memoir-slash-call-to-arms about the importance of kid-centered healthcare and standalone pediatric hospitals.
The former soldier and prosecutor talks about his unusual path to writing — and the eerie prescience of his debut novel.
The novelist/poet discusses westerns, accolades, and her admiration for world-building narratives.
The South African novelist talks Apartheid, heroes, and a dark, mysterious forest.
The historian behind The Evangelicals explores the political power of true believers.
What do you get when you mix an endearing 32-year-old protagonist, her overbearing and highly dysfunctional family, and a lovely new bungalow in which the previous owner died? The answer: On Turpentine Lane.
