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Lorna Landvik: Life lessons from Joan Rivers.
BY LORNA LANDVIK Stand-up and improvisational comedian, public speaker, and best-selling author ----- This is the fourth post in a weekly series by L ...
Explore the frightening landscape where water and thirst are political, and drought is a business opportunity.
Click here to download the graphic version of this article. This week is World Water Week in Stockholm, where more than 200 ...
Lorna Landvik: Why I wrote Best to Laugh, Part 2.
BY LORNA LANDVIK Stand-up and improvisational comedian, public speaker, and best-selling author ----- This is the third post in a weekly series by L ...
Students on Isherwood: I Am George, a meditation on life and death in A Single Man.
Today marks the occasion of what would be Christopher Isherwood's 110th birthday (born on August 26th, 1904). To honor this event, Christopher Freeman ...
Lorna Landvik: Why I wrote Best to Laugh, Part 1.
BY LORNA LANDVIK Stand-up and improvisational comedian, public speaker, and best-selling author -- This is the second in a weekly series by Lorna L ...
Lorna Landvik: Do we really "choose" our destinies—or are they written in the stars?
BY LORNA LANDVIK Stand-up and improvisational comedian, public speaker, and best-selling author -- This is the first in a weekly series by Lorna Lan ...
Understanding inequality—across ecosystems, species, and human populations.
BY DAVID NAGUIB PELLOW Author of Total Liberation and professor and Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota The ...
Return to the Enchanted Forest: 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage'
Writer Haruki Murakami. BY MATTHEW C. STRECHER, PH.D. Professor of Japanese language, literature, and culture at Winona State University In jus ...
Linda LeGarde Grover on the merits of time-honored oral tradition and contemporary fictional storytelling.
BY LINDA LEGARDE GROVER Recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize; associate professor of American Indian studies a ...
Sexuality in school: LGBT issues are not the exclusive concern of LGBT students.
BY JEN GILBERT Associate professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto When lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues emerg ...