In a new book, Phil Bredesen weighs in on the health-care debate
Few American politicians are as well versed in the health-care debate as Tennessee Gov. Philip Bredesen. A former health-care executive, Bredesen came to office in 2002 promising to fix TennCare,…
Abraham Verghese wants young doctors to touch their patients
October 11, 2010 A doctor’s hands are in danger of being replaced by an array of medical devices, fears Abraham Verghese, the former Johnson City writer and physician whose first…
Meredith Maran came to believe her father molested her. Eight years later, she changed her mind.
For eight years, Meredith Maran mistakenly believed her father had molested her when she was a child. Two decades later, still tormented by the damage her accusation caused her family,…
Join us in Nashville for the twenty-second annual Southern Festival of Books
Writing tends to be a reclusive art, but Humanities Tennessee has lured 265 authors out of their garrets for the twenty-second annual Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the…
Why Cormac McCarthy should have won the Nobel Prize
If literature were sport, the Nobel Prize would be the Olympic gold medal, Super Bowl, and World Series all rolled up into one. Which explains why the odds-makers at Ladbrokes.com,…
The protagonist of Laura Lippman’s new thriller hasn’t moved as far beyond the past as she believes
Laura Lippman’s new crime novel, I’d Know You Anywhere, begins where most mysteries end. The killer has been caught and incarcerated; apparently, justice has been served. Twenty years after he…
