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Utah novelist Mette Ivie Harrison had already written YA novels and a memoir, but she was still trying to work through her thoughts about Mormonism,…

There may be but two certainties in life—death and taxes—but of those two, death is most frightening. Humans hate the fact of death, and so we constantly…

Think about that one teacher who had the biggest impact on your education. What skills or qualities did that person have that other teachers didn’t? What…

Laurel Braitman was very worried about her dog’s mental health. Oliver was an anxious animal, especially when left home alone. And he was alone when he…

Longtime NPR correspondent JackiLyden has started a new project called The SEAMS. It’s an audio expedition of the fashion world and it explores how our…

Around 360 BC, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote about a marvelous city that disappeared millennia earlier. Atlantis is one of the world’s great unsolved…

If you always use GPS to navigate your destination, do you ever learn where you are? If spell-check keeps you from making mistakes, do you eventually…

To many readers, Edward Abbey and Wallace Stegner are icons of Western American literature. Both were great writers, and they shared a passion for…

Historian Naomi Oreskes says that while the U.S. scientific community has led the world in research on issues like public health and environmental…

Forget what you think you know about creativity being the domain of the solitary genius. The writer Joshua Wolf Shenk says it's a myth that's outlived its…