Arts

At 12:01 this morning, 2010 theaters across North America felt the Force of fan appreciation as they began showing the long-awaited "Star Wars: Episode 1-- The Phantom Menace."…

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The following is a full listing of aid organizations mounting campaigns to assist those refugees created by Yugoslav efforts in Kosovo and NATO strikes in Yugoslavia.

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Elizabeth Farnsworth looks at the ship, the tragedy, the industry, and the fascination behind Titanic.

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Roger Rosenblatt reminisces about Charlie Chan films in light of AMC's day long movie marathon of Chan movies.

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Since publishing her first book, The Bluest Eye, in 1970, Toni Morrison has become one of America's premier novelists. Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author about her latest book, Paradise.

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A major exhibit on the Harlem Renaissance began its tour at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. An art educator and curator discuss the art and entertainment scene that took place during the Harlem Renaissance.

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In honor of the late Barbara Jordan, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads a poem for his hero.

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David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News & World Report, engages Iris Chang, author of "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II."…

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Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the work of a California artist.

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In 1963, American poet Sylvia Plath killed herself. Since then, her husband Ted Hughes has refused to respond to accusations that he was to blame for her death. Now, in Birthday Letters, his new book of poetry, the British poet…

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