Aug 16 How Aretha Franklin shaped generations of music By Gretchen Frazee, Alison Thoet, Jennifer Hijazi, Rhana Natour, Joshua Barajas “If there’s a heaven, this is what it sounds like.”… Continue reading
Aug 16 Aretha Franklin, queen of soul, dies at 76 By Mesfin Fekadu, Hillel Italie, Associated Press Legendary singer Aretha Franklin died Thursday. Continue reading
Aug 14 ‘The human capacity to carry many things at once’ By Jennifer Hijazi For poet Ada Limón, carrying both the joys and sorrows of a child-free life is a testament to the human ability to exist with many things piled on our shoulders at once. Continue reading
Aug 13 Aretha Franklin is seriously ill, AP source says By Associated Press The Queen of Soul canceled planned concerts earlier this year after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest up. Continue reading
Aug 12 V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 85 By Sylvia Hui, Associated Press V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing made him one of the world's most admired writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85. Continue reading
Aug 10 Watch 6:51 In a world full of surveillance, artist Trevor Paglen stares back By Jeffrey Brown When artist Trevor Paglen looks up at the night sky, there's beauty and wonder, but also a planet completely transformed by humans into a "landscape of surveillance." His new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Sites Unseen,” offers a… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch 6:16 A journalist’s journey, guided by curiosity for her father’s illness Jean Guerrero’s "Crux" is the odyssey of a daughter in search of herself as she comes to terms with her own mentally ill father. Amna Nawaz talks with the author, who is also a journalist for KPBS, about how she… Continue watching
Aug 08 Oscars to add ‘popular film’ category, drawing backlash By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press Big changes are coming to the Academy Awards, including the addition of a popular film award category and the promise of a shorter ceremony in an effort to combat declining viewership and criticisms that the awards are out of touch… Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch 5:10 Long-lost Hemingway story captures Paris liberation In August 1944, Paris was liberated from Nazi occupiers, and embedded with the soldiers was a giant of American literature. More than a decade later, Ernest Hemingway captured the mood and the moment in a short story that bears the… Continue watching
Aug 07 ‘If the short story is a sprint, the novel is a marathon,’ and more writing advice from Lesley Nneka Arimah By Elizabeth Flock "I eventually became the writer I needed to be to pull it off," writer Lesley Nneka Arimah says of her debut short story collection. "What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky" is our August pick for the… Continue reading