Aug 10 Watch 2:36 How this artist turned bad karma into raw honesty By PBS News Hour Artist and poet G Yamazawa grew up Asian-American and Buddhist in the southern Bible Belt, where he often felt as though he didn't belong. But insecurity transformed into a love for the stage and performance. G Yamazawa gives his Brief… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch 2:43 A postcard from where Alaska's oil industry and wilderness meet By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, oil started flowing down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline 40 years ago. Every summer, thousands of workers file through Deadhorse, Alaska, an operations center for the oil field, including postal worker Les Dunbar. Eric… Continue watching
Aug 10 In long-lost play, the author of 'Peter Pan' spoofs 'Sherlock Holmes' and the mystery genre By Elizabeth Flock The play will be published this week in the Strand Magazine, a quarterly mystery magazine that has previously unearthed and published works by John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Heller, and H.G. Wells. Continue reading
Aug 09 Should museums be able to sell their art? This museum says its future depends on it By Dayana Morales Gomez The Berkshire Museum has drawn criticism for planning to auction some of its most prominent art pieces, including several by beloved painter Norman Rockwell. Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch 5:03 In 'Transit,' novelist Rachel Cusk tells story of rebuilding a house and a life By PBS News Hour In "Transit," a new novel by Rachel Cusk, a woman and her two sons prepare to begin a new life. The second book in a planned trilogy, her novel is gaining acclaim for the writing and form. Cusk joins Jeffrey… Continue watching
Aug 08 Glen Campbell's last song chronicled his struggle with Alzheimer's disease By Elizabeth Flock The "Rhinestone Cowboy," country music legend, hitmaker, and TV star, is dead at 81. Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch 5:55 Novelist explores borderlands and gray areas of the Syrian war By PBS News Hour In "Dark at the Crossing," the upheavals and horrors of the Syrian civil war are given fictional life, centered in the border zone between Syria and Turkey. Author Elliot Ackerman is a former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan… Continue watching
Aug 07 What does it mean to be multiracial in America? This poet explores how it's complicated By Elizabeth Flock Charif Shanahan is the son of an Irish-American father and a Moroccan mother. Growing up black and Arab in America was an experience full of "instability," he said, and he's using his new book of poetry to start conversations around… Continue reading
Aug 07 What it's like to be President Trump's White House photographer By Elizabeth Flock In one of her first-ever interviews, official White House photographer Shealah Craighead says she sees her role as to be a neutral observer, instead of shape the public perception of the president. Continue reading
Aug 06 Born behind bars, this literary genre has 'grown up' to resonate with young adults By Kamala Kelkar A genre called urban literature was resurfaced by self-made entrepreneurs, often black women and many from prison. Continue reading