“Clever, observant, and nimble,” novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein examines the conflicts between heart and mind, how philosophy and emotion construct the totality of who we are. Her five novels include The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind and The Dark Sister, as well as several short stories, essays, and biographies. Goldstein is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim fellow, and winner of a 1996 MacArthur fellowship which allowed her to write Properties of Light, a “bewitchingly ethereal” (Publishers Weekly) novel about physics and obsessive love. In Plato at the Googleplex, Goldstein places the titular philosopher within a 21^st dialogic context.  Delving into the drama of philosophy, she channels Plato in order to explore modern debates about politics, religion, science, and the monumental questions that continue to puzzle us.