Richard Rodriguez has expressed provocative views on diversity and its relationship to identity. Bill Moyers speaks with Rodriguez about spirituality, mortality, and growing up in a Catholic family and community that were often at odds with Protestant-dominated America. An atmospheric physicist and a leading expert on global warming, Sir John Houghton speaks as a scientist and evangelical Christian. He explains his belief that science and religion...

A collection of twenty-five narrative essays originally published in the journal, Creative Nonfiction, includes works by Lauren Slater, John Edgar Wideman, and John McPhee, with commentary by the authors following their pieces.