Oct 31 Watch 6:31 'American Wolf' author Nate Blakeslee answers your questions By Jeffrey Brown Nate Blakeslee, author of our October pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer questions from readers, plus Jeff announces November’s book. Continue watching
Oct 31 The November pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is 'A Separation' By Elizabeth Flock "A Separation" is a moody psychological novel about a woman who learns that her estranged husband has gone missing in Greece, and tries to find him. Continue reading
Oct 28 Shut for over 6 years, Syria's national museum reopens By Albert Aji, Associated Press More than six years after it was shut down as the country’s civil war encroached, Syria’s National Museum in the heart of Damascus reopened on Sunday. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch 5:39 For Hilary Swank, a 'vulnerable' role as the daughter of an Alzheimer's patient By Jeffrey Brown The new film “What They Had” explores the painful journey of a family coping with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Its accomplished cast includes Blythe Danner as an ailing mother and Hilary Swank as the daughter who comes home to care for… Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch 3:22 Comedian Hasan Minhaj on political satire and 'the American Dream Tax' By Steve Goldbloom Hasan Minhaj, a former correspondent for “The Daily Show,” grew up in California as the son of immigrants, experiencing childhood as a "brown kid in America." With his new show "Patriot Act" premiering this week on Netflix, Minhaj shares his… Continue watching
Oct 26 PHOTOS: Meet the wolves and humans who inspired 'American Wolf' By Elizabeth Flock See photos of O-Six, known as the most famous wolf in the world, as well as as her pack. Continue reading
Oct 25 Prime-time TV reaches record-high percentage of LGBTQ characters, study shows By Lynn Elber, Associated Press While the percentage of regularly seen LGBTQ characters on scripted broadcast series rose from last year's 6.4 percent to hit an all-time high of 8.8 percent, GLAAD said the TV industry is still falling short. Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch 5:46 Octavio Solis on growing up a 'skinny brown kid' on the U.S.-Mexico border By Jeffrey Brown As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite… Continue watching
Oct 22 A journalist's death by a repressive government, remembered in verse By Lora Strum Marie Colvin "was killed in an attempt to silence her and others reporting from that place,” poet and friend Alan Jenkins said. Continue reading
Oct 22 2 rarely seen Hemingway stories will be published next year By Hillel Italie, Associated Press The director of Hemingway's literary estate, Michael Katakis, told The Associated Press recently that "The Monument" and "Indian Country and the White Army" will be included with a special reissue of the author's classic "For Whom the Bell Tolls."… Continue reading