Mar 23 George C. Wolfe, Anne Carson win PEN achievement awards By Associated Press Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe and Canadian poet-translator Anne Carson are among this year's winners of PEN America awards for career achievement. Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch 6:01 How one doctor’s love for poetry helps him communicate with patients better By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport As a part of our Arts and Culture series, CANVAS, Jeffrey Brown takes a look at the intersection of the alchemy of health and art with his profile of Fady Joudah, the physician-poet — or perhaps poet-physician. Continue watching
Mar 22 WATCH: Director Lee Isaac Chung on how faith grounds ‘Minari’ By Tommy Walters For “Minari,” writer and director Lee Isaac Chung drew on his memories of religion growing up in the south. Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch 6:00 Music had a tough year in 2020. This band managed to thrive By Christopher Booker Despite a year at a standstill for the music industry — a world without tours, concerts or crowds — musical duo the Black Pumas somehow managed to be seemingly everywhere in 2020: on late-night television, the inauguration of President Biden,… Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch 8:54 Actress Margaret Cho on why racism is a ‘deep well of shame’ for some Asian Americans By PBS NewsHour For more on the history of and recent rise in anti-Asian American racism and hate crimes, Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy & Grammy-nominated comedian and actress Margaret Cho joins Hari Sreenivasan. She speaks about her own family’s experience with racism in… Continue watching
Mar 19 Margaret Atwood, Celeste Ng among contributors to pandemic novel By Hillel Italie, Associated Press Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the Authors Guild Foundation. Continue reading
Mar 19 Stone tablet marking First Amendment freedoms finds new home By Associated Press The National Constitution Center, which sits in an area of the city billed as America's most historic square mile, will erect the tablet in an atrium overlooking Independence Hall, the UNESCO World Heritage Site where both the Declaration of Independence… Continue reading
Mar 19 Famed Tiffany jewelry designer Elsa Peretti dead at age 80 By Leanne Italie, Associated Press Peretti's sculptural cuff bracelets, bean designs and open-heart pendants are among her most recognizable work. She often worked in sterling silver, a metal she favored and helped popularize as a luxury choice. Continue reading
Mar 19 Discussion questions for ‘Nomadland’ By Courtney Vinopal Our March/April 2021 pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour’s book club with The New York Times, is Jessica Bruder’s “Nomadland."… Continue reading
Mar 18 Incoming editor in chief parts ways with Teen Vogue over past tweets By Leanne Italie, Associated Press Alexi McCammond says she and Teen Vogue are parting ways over her past anti-Asian and homophobic tweets. The 27-year-old journalist apologized yet again for the tweets in a statement she posted Thursday on Twitter. Continue reading