Writer and civil rights lawyer Alia Malek tells the story of modern America through the eyes of old-school Arab-Americans and new-wave immigrants.

The best time to do everything. Buy a house. Go to Disneyland. Take a nap. We’ll get the scoop.

De-coding Carl Jung. The secret diary of Jung’s own psychic travels goes public. We’ll open the Swiss vault that held the master’s journey.

Nobel Prize-winning philosopher and economist Amartya Sen on a new theory of social justice.

Conservatives might not like it, but Sam Tanenhaus says their movement is, fundamentally, dead. We’ll hear his case and his critics.

Novelist Nicholson Baker’s humorous take on poetry, rhyme, and the tortured lives of poets.

Anthropologist Tim Pauketat takes us back a thousand years to Cahokia, the ancient city on the banks of the Mississippi River.

New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni has left his restaurant beat. We’ll ask about his new memoir, “Born Round,” and about how people eat when they eat out.

A city boy goes goat farming. We’ll get close to land, cheese, and pasture with the author of “Goat Song.”

Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo on his new novel of midlife crackup and the search for happiness: “That Old Cape Magic.”

Master storyteller Pat Conroy talks about his first novel in 14 years, “South of Broad,” and much more.

Islam, immigration, and Europe’s demographic revolution. We’ll look at the new face of Europe.

It’s been called “the biggest art fraud of the 20th century.” We’ll talk with the artist behind it, and the reporter who tells his story.

Writer Robert Sabbag survived a 1979 plane crash. Now, he’s gone back to relive those minutes — and discover how they changed the lives of his fellow survivors.

In his new book, Dave Eggers tells one man’s story in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and takes on post-9/11 America. He’ll join us.

On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quiet est boats. Five or six small craft, two or three fishermen in each. A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black [...]

Alabama’s Winston Groom, author of “Forrest Gump,” takes on the Battle of Vicksburg.

Forget summer heat. We’re talking glaciers, igloos, blizzards, and adventures in the world’s coldest places.

A true story of gangs, human smuggling, and the American dream in New York’s Chinatown. We’ll talk with the author of “The Snakehead.”

He was “mad, bad and dangerous to know.” Author Edna O’Brien reads into the poetry and many lovers of the great Lord Byron.