The author describes how growing up on the farm taught her to love “real foods” and how much healthier she became when she stopped being a vegetarian.

A conversation with the founder of London Farmers’ Markets and author of “Real Food: What to Eat and Why.”

The more potential dating partners we are choosing from, the more likely we are to choose someone based on looks.

About the only time our gut impulse can outperform our reason is if we have developed some kind of truly informed intuition.

Different cultures have different attitudes about options–and about how many choices a person needs to have in order to decide.

Most of the time, when we’re confronted by an abundance of choices, it’s because we’re novices and don’t know how to differentiate between them.

Animals, like humans, want to exert control over their lives with choices. Humans show this desire from a young age.

Growing up in a Sikh-American family, the business professor became fascinated with decisions. As she gradually grew blind, she wondered how much her own choices would be diminished.

A conversation with the Columbia Business School professor.

The Catholic Church will be “a different color” in 40 years. And there will likely be female priests.

This priest advises to stop “shoulding” all over yourself.

It’s dangerous to be spiritual without being religious, and vice versa.

Why the television host’s recent comment betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the gospel.

The Church’s sex scandal has nothing to do with celibacy and everything to do with a “culture of secrecy” that put the Church’s public image first.

Anti-Catholicism is not as bad as some other prejudices are in our culture, but it is present.

As one of the show’s regulars, the priest talks about what it’s like behind the scenes.

What it’s like to make the switch from the Wall Street Journal to the Bible.

The Jesuit priest talks about what it’s like to lead a life of poverty and celibacy.

A conversation with the Jesuit priest and author of “The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.”

The author says he wishes people would just take more responsibility for their own food consumption and cook food at home more often.

The author stays up trying to figuring out where to position her writing desk, and solves many of her fictional questions in her sleep.

Another problem with the U.S. healthcare system: dying shouldn’t be thought of as a war.

The bestselling author learned a lesson when she based characters in a novel on members of her family.

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.

If you speak too much to the immediate moment, it’s already moved on by the time your book is published.

The author’s impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence.

Lionel Shriver’s career began after winning a writing contest about her school’s newly renovated cafeteria.

A conversation with the novelist.

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.

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.