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Thursday on the NewsHour: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh

By Tom LeGro

City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is a six-year-old program that provides shelter to foreign literary writers who have encountered dangers in their homeland. Watch online exclusive videos of the writers reading their work.

Blueberries Among Top Tips to Avoid Alzheimer's, Journalist Says

By Betty Ann Bowser

When health journalist Jean Carper discovered that she carried the ApoE4 gene that triples her risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, she became interested in finding out more about the latest research on Alzheimer's prevention. More research and…

Thursday's Art Notes

By Molly Finnegan

In today's arts and culture headlines, actor Tony Curtis has passed away at age 85.

Update | Round Two in the Lehman Art Auction

By Paul Solman

The Lehman art auction, part II, took place today at Christie's in London. Several works we covered in our popular slide show sampler of the auction -- Lucian (grandson of Sigmund) Freud's portrait etching and Gary Hume's "Madonna" --…

Conversation: Director Nicolas Kent Brings Real Drama of Afghanistan Onstage

By Molly Finnegan

Starting with the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War and running through to the present day conflict in Afghanistan, a new theater production called "The Great Game: Afghanistan" attempts to educate audiences about the history of modern foreign intervention in that region with…

Is Life Expectancy Changing Due to Our Terrible Economy?

Name: Curt Carpenter Two questions: 1. Does the economic disaster of the last two years show up in our demographic data yet? (Life expectancies, birth rates and so on.) 2. What would a real economic collapse in the U.S.

Wednesday's Art Notes

By Molly Finnegan

In today's arts and culture headlines, film director Arthur Penn has died.

Conversation: Yiyun Li, Fiction Writer and Winner of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship

By Molly Finnegan

Born in Beijing, MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li came to the United States in 1996 to complete a doctoral program in immunology, but decided then to change her career path and instead do something that was more important to her: writing.

Americans' Religious Knowledge Has Major Gaps, Survey Finds

Updated 3:58 p.m. ET Despite their religious faith, many Americans are ignorant of key facts about their own and other world religions, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

MacArthur Foundation Announces 2010 Class of Genius Grant Winners

A jazz pianist, an installation artist and a third-generation stone carver are among the recipients of the 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship grants, announced early Tuesday morning.