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Joan Didion reads from her latest book, "Blue Nights."…

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Jeffrey Brown talks to writer Joan Didion about her latest book, "Blue Nights."…

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Ice sculptures were on display at the annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province Friday.

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Karl Pillemer's new book "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans" navigates the trials of life and aging in the words of those who've experienced them the longest. In a conversation with Hari Sreenivasan, Pillemer…

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A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines.

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Orphan students from Malawi, who were trained to speak Mandarin at a Taiwanese-funded Buddhist orphanage in Africa, perform dance and kung-fu Wednesday for a group of students in Hong Kong as a part of a cultural exchange program.

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We're not making Art Beat into a "how to" or life advice blog. But I began the new year reading a delightful book: "How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne" by Sarah Blakewell -- part intellectual history, part biography…

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An Egyptian soldier stands guard in front of a mural of Queen Nefertiti while security guards direct the crowd outside a polling station in Minya during the final round of parliamentary elections Tuesday.

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Unemployment, inflation, poverty, exchange rates, monetary policy - everything that makes economics the 'dismal science' is made laughing stock with the macroeconomics edition of Yoram Bauman and Grady Klein's "Cartoon Introduction to Economics."…

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Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.

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