Apr 20 There's No Place Like Dome in Peter Bognanni's 'The House of Tomorrow' By Molly Finnegan Buckminster Fuller's designs provide the inspiration for the setting of "The House of Tomorrow," a first novel by Peter Bognanni that charts the life of an adolescent growing up inside -- and venturing out of -- a geodesic dome. Continue reading
Apr 20 Civil Rights Icon Dorothy Height Dies; Former Lehman CEO to Face Questions Dorothy Height attends a 2006 congressional hearing about voting rights in the District of Columbia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.) The civil rights movement lost its founding matriarch early Tuesday morning. Dorothy I. Height, who fought for most of… Continue reading
Apr 19 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry, Rae Armantrout By Tom LeGro This year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry is Rae Armantrout for her book, "Versed."… Continue reading
Apr 19 Monday: Flight Disruptions Continue; Court to Hear Campus Group's Appeal Stranded travelers sleep at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris on Monday, as main French airports remain closed. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images.) Lawmakers and aviation officials across Europe faced growing criticism Monday, as air travel across the continent… Continue reading
Apr 16 Jim Lehrer's 'Super' Office Tour By Hari Sreenivasan I remember walking into Jim Lehrer's office for the first time last summer for my job interview and no amount of preparation could have readied me for the enormous collection of intriguing and distracting bus memorabilia in there. For a… Continue reading
Apr 16 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction, Paul Harding By Molly Finnegan This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction was not a bestseller or a blockbuster. Its author was not a big name, and its publisher, too -- a small imprint called Bellevue Literary Press, run out of the NYU Medical School… Continue reading
Apr 16 'Doctor Who' Regenerates for a New Season By Molly Finnegan On Saturday, a new era begins for the BBC's beloved science-fiction series, "Doctor Who," the quirky and mysterious hero who time travels in a spaceship disguised as a blue police box, exploring strange worlds and occasionally saving the universe. Continue reading
Apr 16 Paul Solman Takes a Trip Down RAM Memory Lane By Carolyn O'Hara On Thursday's NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book "Drive," about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace. PAUL SOLMAN: Executive pay and Wall Street bonuses,... might not enhance,… Continue reading