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The Jesuit priest talks about what it’s like to lead a life of poverty and celibacy.
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A conversation with the Jesuit priest and author of “The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.”
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The author says he wishes people would just take more responsibility for their own food consumption and cook food at home more often.
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The author stays up trying to figuring out where to position her writing desk, and solves many of her fictional questions in her sleep.
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Another problem with the U.S. healthcare system: dying shouldn’t be thought of as a war.
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The bestselling author learned a lesson when she based characters in a novel on members of her family.
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While there is value to graduate writing degrees, so many of the young writers encouraged by their MFA professors aren’t going to make it. This leaves Shriver uneasy.
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If you speak too much to the immediate moment, it’s already moved on by the time your book is published.
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The author’s impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence.
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Lionel Shriver’s career began after winning a writing contest about her school’s newly renovated cafeteria.
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The state of the world and its social problems aren’t worth losing sleep over. As the evolutionary psychologist explains, just worry about your science.
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Intelligent people create novel solutions to problems—a fact that has resulted in a rich history of smart people picking up eccentric values and habits.
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Love was designed by evolution to compel us to engage in behavior that will spread our genes into the next generation. But divorce, far from a modern phenomenon, has also […]
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In a number of fundamental ways, human psychology hasn’t budged in a very long time.
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It turns out that you indeed can judge a book by its cover—nice people look nice and nasty people look nasty.
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There is a proven mathematical theorem for why dating and finding a job in a large urban area is difficult and frustrating.
Humans are, in a sense, hardwired to be conservative, and it requires a unique intelligence to acquire something as evolutionarily novel as liberalism.
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The evolutionary psychologist explains that attractive people tend to have girls, a trend that is making women far more attractive on average than men.
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The primary goal of life is reproductive success, a common bond that explains why, for scientists, artists, and even criminals, genius and discovery peak among the young and single.