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
Aug 02 Seattle artist takes viewers on a voyage to other worlds By Stephen Hegg, KCTS The boat is the emblem of Steve Jensen’s Norwegian soul. Boats carried his grandparents to America from Bergen, and boats are where he spent his young life as son and grandson of fishermen and boat builders. Boats are what he… Continue reading
Aug 01 A poet sees the light after the darkness of illness By Mary Jo Brooks Judith Barrington writes about memory, childhood, love and mortality. “When anything impacts me emotionally or spiritually or intellectually, my immediate response is to put it into words, to capture it — which of course no one can do. The written… Continue reading
Jul 30 Latino stars voice both outrage and caution in election year By Lynn Elber, Associated Press The reaction has been cautious from some, fiery from others as Latino stars search out their own path in an extraordinary political year. Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch 2:45 The reporter who's been "schlepping" around with Hillary Clinton for eight years By PBS News Hour Continue watching