Staff Picks

If trees could speak, what might they say?If trees could speak to us, what might they say? In The Overstory, 2019’s Pulitzer Prize winner by Richard…

Beyond the destruction, the smashing of cars and in some cases, homes, what happens to a city when it loses so many trees?Are these winds that took so…

In early medical history, medical professionals — who were almost always men —expected women’s bodies to produce children. But women’s very ability to…

For a society that is currently homebound, there seems no greater pleasure at this time than a simple walk. A month ago, we would go out to eat, to a…

If you’re a woman in the sports world, trying to dominate the field can be a tough gig. Julie DiCaro joins us to talk about her book Sidelined: Sports,…

If you play The White Album backwards, is John Lennon really saying “turn me on, dead man”? Join Doug for a conversation about the paranoia around hidden…

For most of us, overwork is the new normal, and rest is an afterthought. But by dismissing the importance of rest in our lives we may be stifling our…

Elna Baker's memoir is about being a twenty-something Mormon virgin in New York City. When she spoke to us in 2012, things had changed. She was then an…

Journalist Charles Bowden spent some 15 years writing about Ciudad Juarez, witnessing what he calls the collapse of a society. Bowden joins Doug to talk…

When journalist Christopher McDougall wrote the book that kicked off the barefoot running movement, he got to thinking about what makes a hero. He joins…