Interviews
Featured Interview
You won’t find Buzz Bissinger dropping to his knees in prayer like his Texas high school football team did before each game. Yet, says the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of the best-selling Friday Night Lights, “More and more, it seems important to me to have faith in something.” S&H caught up with him at the National Writers Series Book Festival in Traverse City, Michigan. “I visited Auschwitz two years ago,” Bissinger explains, shaking his head. “It sounds trite, but I was never bar...
 Best known for her groundbreaking play The Vagina Monologues, and as a founder of V-Day, a movement to call attention to violence against women, Eve Ensler reveals her harrowing struggle with uterine cancer and explores how the ordeal allowed her to reclaim her own body in her intensely |
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 In the more than 15 years she spent under house arrest between 1989 and 2010, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says one of the most important things she learned was the power of kindness. |
 A founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is also one of today’s leading thinkers on the spiritual stages of aging. |
 Taking the stage in a swirl of color and light, the artist who calls herself, simply, Spiral works a kind of magic, mesmerizing her audience with performances that incorporate dance, acrobatics, and contortion, and the manipulation of objects like hoops, wands, and juggling balls. |
 In her new book, Close to the Ground, the S&H columnist and Zen practitioner explores Buddhism’s seven factors of enlightenment: mindfulness, investigation, effort, ease, joy, concentration, and equanimity. |
 In the ’90s, I had an inner opening that shifted my entire worldview. Though I’d not been drawn to poetry for years, I found myself turning to Rumi, Kabir, and Mirabai. |
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 When it opened its doors a decade ago, People’s Grocery was one of the only local food programs in West Oakland, a low-income neighborhood full of liquor stores and devoid of fresh produce. |
 Ai-jen Poo is an organizer. Not the kind that disposes of your clutter or rearranges closets: a community organizer, bringing people with common interests together so they can work as a group to improve their lives. |
