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The National Book Awards were announced last week. Jeffrey Brown speaks with one of the winners: C.K. Williams, whose collection "The Singing" won the poetry prize.

Leszek Kolakowski, an anti-Communist Polish philosopher at Oxford University in England, was awarded the first $1 million John W. Kluge prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities. Jeffrey Brown reports on Kolakowski and the new honor.

In the recently recorded "Randy Newman Songbook," the famous musician provides listeners a fresh, stripped-down perspective on his songs, played only on piano. Jeffrey Brown spoke with Newman about his comprehensive career, which has earned him acclaim as first a…