The author of Shouting Won't Help on hearing loss, the arts, and the causes of our increasingly louder world.

The memoirist talks about the bar as solace, sanctuary -- and second home.

The iconic Israeli writer talks about his memoir of the War of Independence and his late-in-life literary celebrity.

The author of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson on his writing process, the challanges historians face, and how his subject acheived the full potential of the presidency.

How the great writer's life in exile emerged in a career of artistic revolution.

The author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? talks about the consequences of "spiritual damage."

The author of Charles Dickens: A Life on what happens "when you live with Dickens for years."

A time-traveling journey through an urban landscape and the writers it's sustained.