Dec 29 Watch Diane Arbus: No Blinking Essayist Richard Rodriguez looks at the work of photographer Diane Arbus, who opened her shutter on subjects that rarely blinked at life. Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch The Early Stories Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Updike about his early career as an author. Updike recently published "The Early Stories: 1953-1975," an anthology of the short stories he wrote in his 20s, 30s and 40s. Continue watching
Dec 25 Watch Communal Voices Essayist Roger Rosenblatt considers the appeal of a single voice. Continue watching
Dec 25 Watch Lord of the Rings Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown takes a look at one of the biggest entertainment events of this holiday season, "The Lord of the Rings."… Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch Don Quixote Last year, a panel of 100 writers from around the world picked "Don Quixote" as the greatest novel of all time. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Edith Grossman, who wrote the most-recent translation of Miguel de Cervantes' 17th-century Spanish classic. Continue watching
Dec 17 Watch Silent Places Essayist Roger Rosenblatt looks at a new book of photographs called "Silent Places," which shows some of the houses and institutions in Poland that were evacuated by the Jews during the Holocaust. Rosenblatt says a human element remains even in… Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch Musical Mission: The Iraqi National Symphony The Iraqi National Symphony made its first visit to Washington this week. Jeffrey Brown reports that the tour, which mixes high culture and international politics, has come with a note of discord. Continue watching
Dec 08 Watch Hip Hop Literature Spencer Michels reports on an increasingly popular genre of streetwise fiction called "hip hop literature."… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch Things That Matter Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming says that separation and loss teach us that the written word we share with loved ones is often one of the things that matters most. Continue watching
Dec 02 Watch Selling a Dream Ray Suarez continues the NewsHour series on how and where Americans live their lives with a look at the divorce between expectations and reality in the wedding business. Continue watching