Aug 08 Watch 6:35 3 solo artists describe the ‘excellent exercise’ of musical collaboration By PBS News Hour hey were used to being in charge of their own voices, their own lyrics, their own paths. But recently, singers Neko Case, K.D. Lang and Laura Veirs put autonomy aside to form a single group. The goal was to create… Continue watching
Aug 08 Road to Rio is paved with poetry for runner Alexi Pappas By Mary Jo Brooks The 26-year-old athlete, who will compete in the women's 10,000 meter at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, was a poetry major. Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch 25:10 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Aug. 7, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this episode for Sunday, Aug. 7, rebels in Syria advance on government forces in the embattled city of Aleppo, peace talks aimed at resolving Yemen’s 16-month civil war are suspended and the Obama administration declassifies its playbook for drone… Continue watching
Aug 07 Meet the Deaf Poets Society, a digital journal for writers with disabilities By Corinne Segal Deaf Poets Society, a new digital literary magazine, has a message for writers with disabilities: we see you. We want you to be here. And this is your space. Continue reading
Aug 06 These collages, made from hundreds of news photos, reflect on the ‘Chinese Dream’ By Andi Wang Yuan spent a year and a half looking through the thousands of photos he took between 2004 and 2014 in China, creating large-scale collages to tell a larger story about Chinese politics. Continue reading
Aug 05 Watch 6:50 When the victim becomes the criminal: a fresh look at the story of Patty Hearst By PBS News Hour In 1974, William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter Patty was abducted from her California home by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. After subsequent events suggested the teenager had joined the group, she was captured and sentenced -- but later pardoned. Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 3:49 Alec Baldwin on why he was born to host a public radio show By PBS News Hour As host of WNYC’s “Here’s the Thing,” actor Alec Baldwin has been criticized for doing too much talking. He counters that he’s trying to push guests, such as Andrew Weiner, Chris Rock and Molly Ringwald, to share something the audience… Continue watching
Aug 04 Svetlana Alexievich’s stories of life, longing and suffering under Soviet rule By Jeffrey Brown "Secondhand Time" is the first book by Alexievich to appear in English since she was awarded the Nobel and it continues her series of works exploring the long sweep of Soviet culture and politics. Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch 5:21 A Nobel laureate writes from her own experience living under Soviet rule By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch 6:52 Imagining the Underground Railroad as an actual train system Colson Whitehead’s new novel considers a startling premise: what if slaves had fled southern plantations via an actual subterranean train? Jeffrey Brown sits down with the author at BookExpo America in Chicago to discuss the challenge of blending fantasy with… Continue watching