Jul 11 Romney to NAACP: If You Could Read My Heart, You Would Vote for Me By Alex Bruns Updated 11:55 p.m. Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP at their 103rd National Convention in Houston Wednesday morning. // While acknowledging the historical significance of President Obama's election as the nation's first African-American president, Romney attempted to distinguish himself in the… Continue reading
Jul 11 Lou Beach Reads From ‘420 Characters’ Last month, Jeffrey Brown talked to artist and author Lou Beach about his recent collection of short stories, "420 Characters," which began as status updates on Facebook. After the interview, Beach read several of the stories for us. At long… Continue reading
Jul 11 The Daily Frame A spider's web is woven around Christoph Poeggeler's sculpture of a kissing couple in Duesseldorf, Germany. Continue reading
Jul 10 Culture Canvas A weekly roundup of arts and culture headlines, including the story of why the Pulitzer board didn't award a fiction prize this spring. Continue reading
Jul 10 The Daily Frame Actors perform during a rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" in the French city of Orange, during the Choregies d'Orange, a festival dedicated to opera, lyrical art and symphonic concert. Photo by Gerard Julien/ AFP/ GettyImages. Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch Obama’s Search for Himself: ‘A Classic Odyssey’ New Book Details Obama's Search for Himself… Continue watching
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Jul 09 Watch Weekly Poem: Tracy K. Smith Reads From ‘The Speed of Belief’ Tracy K. Smith reads from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Life on Mars."… Continue watching
Jul 09 Weekly Poem: From ‘The Speed of Belief’ By Tom LeGro Tracy K. Smith's poem is from her book "Life on Mars" (2011, Graywolf Press), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry earlier this year. She is the author of two other collections of poetry: "Duende" (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the… Continue reading
Jul 09 The Daily Frame A tourist sits next to a sculpture of a shark at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Monday. Continue reading