Oct 07 The Daily Frame Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu studies a portrait of himself. Photo by Michelly Rall/ Getty Images. Continue reading
Oct 06 Culture Canvas A roundup of the week’s art headlines. Motown guitarist and songwriter Marv Tarplin is dead at 70, via The New York TImes. Tarplin helped define the sound of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and cowrote the… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Film Follows First Trials of International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor In "Prosecutor," filmmaker Berry Stevens follows Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films aired in partnership between The Economist and the NewsHour. Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch After Draftless Decade of War, Gap Seen Between Military, Civilians After Draftless Decade of War, Gap Seen Between Miltiary, Civilians… Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch The Old Man and the Boat: Hemingway’s Quest for Peace The Old Man and His Boat: Hemingway's Quest for Peace… Continue watching
Oct 06 Transtromer, Swedish Poet With ‘Tinge of Modernism, Surrealism,’ Wins Nobel By Saskia de Melker The 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, the first poet to win the award since 1996. Judges selected Transtromer because, they wrote, "through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality."… Continue reading
Oct 06 ‘Hemingway’s Boat’: How Pilar Weathered the Storms of Fame, Ruin EmbedVideo(1689, 480, 304); It's been 50 years since Ernest Hemingway was found next to his shotgun in Ketchum, Idaho. Yet the life and times of the iconic American author remains an open book for scholars and historians to… Continue reading
Oct 06 The Daily Frame A visitor looks at "The Saints Rocco Sebastian Jerome and Helena" by 15th century painter Filippino Lippi. Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/ AFP/ Getty Images. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch Stephane Hessel Wants You to Get Mad Diplomat and author Stephane Hessel talks about his booklet, "Time for Outrage."… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Hemingway and His Boat: New Book Offers Insight Into Elusive Writer Hemingway and His Boat: New Book Offers Insight Into Elusive Writer… Continue watching