Nov 17 Weekly Poem: Hoa Nguyen links globalization and goddesses By Victoria Fleischer Many of the poems in “Red Juice” deal with a concern for globalization and sustainability. “You can see that progression in the book, that there is more and more urgency around the concern about financial collapse, concern about environmental collapse,… Continue reading
Nov 17 McCain: Medic’s bravery should end debate on women’s combat capability By News Desk McCain sat down with co-anchor Gwen Ifill to talk about his new book, ""Thirteen Soldiers," which tells the personal stories of courageous Americans who have served in each of the nation's conflicts. In this online exclusive, McCain tells the story… Continue reading
Nov 16 Napoleon’s famed two-cornered hat sold at auction for $2.4 million By Andrew Mach Napoleon Bonaparte's trademark bicorn hat sold at auction near Paris on Sunday for roughly $2.4 million. Continue reading
Nov 16 Saved in WWII, ‘greatest picture in the world’ to be restored By Carey Reed A painting by Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, "The Resurrection", which escaped destruction during World War Two, is getting its own revival. Continue reading
Nov 15 Co-founder of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books is dead at 78 By Joshua Barajas R.A. Montgomery, co-author and publisher of the long-running "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, the classic children's book series responsible for letting generations of young readers choose from dozens of possible endings, died Nov. 9 at his home in Vermont, his… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Family history comes to life: Dress designs lost in Holocaust uncovered By PBS News Hour When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of Jews applied for visas to anywhere. Among them, Paul Strnad and his wife Hedy, a dress designer. Ultimately, neither would get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia. Now, in an… Continue watching
Nov 14 Watch In ‘Rosewater,’ remembering humor and humanity after torture By PBS News Hour In 2009, journalist Maziar Bahari was held for months in solitary confinement in a Tehran prison after being charged with being a spy. He turned his real ordeal into a memoir, which has now been dramatized as "Rosewater," a new… Continue watching
Nov 14 How ‘Rosewater’ became Jon Stewart’s directorial debut By Anne Azzi Davenport, Victoria Fleischer Having delivered pointed political barbs and satire about the media and much more since 1999, Jon Stewart took somewhat of a creative detour two summers ago. The movie "Rosewater" marks the screenwriting and directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host… Continue reading
Nov 14 Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on the importance of satire in the face of darkness By Anne Azzi Davenport, Victoria Fleischer "Rosewater," the screenwriting and directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host and executive producer Jon Stewart, retells an ordeal endured by journalist Maziar Bahari, who was held captive in Iran after returning to the country to cover the presidential election… Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on the importance of satire in the face of darkness By PBS News Hour Continue watching