Oct 10 Watch Weekly Poem: 'Leaf at the End' by Lily Brown Lily Brown reads "Leaf at the End" from her book, "Rust or Go Home."… Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch 3 Women 'at Forefront of Peace for Years' Honored With Nobel Prize The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to three women who have fought for peace and women's rights. Margret Warner discusses the achievements of the three winners with the Institute for Policy Studies' Emira Woods and Vital Voices' Malini… Continue watching
Oct 07 Al-Bassam Theatre Takes Inspiration From Shakespeare and the Arab Spring By Saskia de Melker Kuwaiti playwright and theater director Sulayman al-Bassam adapts Shakespearean plays to the modern Arab context to explore issues of religion and society in the contemporary Gulf. Art Beat spoke with al-Bassam on the phone from Brooklyn about the effect of… Continue reading
Oct 07 Whitney Exhibit Walks the Line Between Real and Surreal A new exhibit at the Whitney Museum in New York aims to highlight intersections between representation and fantasy. The exhibit, "Real/Surreal," which opened this week, showcases art from the museum's permanent collection that blurs the lines between the two artistic… Continue reading
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