Sep 30 Conversation: Jonathan Franzen By Molly Finnegan The disintegration of a family in a very fractured and unsettled, post-9/11 America is told in "Freedom," the new novel by Jonathan Franzen. His last novel, "The Corrections," won the 2001 National Book Award. Continue reading
Sep 30 Thursday on the NewsHour: City of Asylum/Pittsburgh By Tom LeGro City of Asylum/Pittsburgh is a six-year-old program that provides shelter to foreign literary writers who have encountered dangers in their homeland. Watch online exclusive videos of the writers reading their work. Continue reading
Sep 30 Blueberries Among Top Tips to Avoid Alzheimer’s, Journalist Says By Betty Ann Bowser When health journalist Jean Carper discovered that she carried the ApoE4 gene that triples her risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, she became interested in finding out more about the latest research on Alzheimer’s prevention. More research and… Continue reading
Sep 30 Thursday’s Art Notes By Molly Finnegan In today's arts and culture headlines, actor Tony Curtis has passed away at age 85. Continue reading
Sep 29 Update | Round Two in the Lehman Art Auction By Paul Solman The Lehman art auction, part II, took place today at Christie's in London. Several works we covered in our popular slide show sampler of the auction -- Lucian (grandson of Sigmund) Freud's portrait etching and Gary Hume's "Madonna" --… Continue reading
Sep 29 Conversation: Director Nicolas Kent Brings Real Drama of Afghanistan Onstage By Molly Finnegan Starting with the 1842 Anglo-Afghan War and running through to the present day conflict in Afghanistan, a new theater production called "The Great Game: Afghanistan" attempts to educate audiences about the history of modern foreign intervention in that region with… Continue reading
Sep 29 Is Life Expectancy Changing Due to Our Terrible Economy? Name: Curt Carpenter Two questions: 1. Does the economic disaster of the last two years show up in our demographic data yet? (Life expectancies, birth rates and so on.) 2. What would a real economic collapse in the U.S. Continue reading
Sep 29 Wednesday’s Art Notes By Molly Finnegan In today's arts and culture headlines, film director Arthur Penn has died. Continue reading
Sep 28 Conversation: Yiyun Li, Fiction Writer and Winner of the 2010 MacArthur Fellowship By Molly Finnegan Born in Beijing, MacArthur Fellow Yiyun Li came to the United States in 1996 to complete a doctoral program in immunology, but decided then to change her career path and instead do something that was more important to her: writing. Continue reading
Sep 28 Americans’ Religious Knowledge Has Major Gaps, Survey Finds Updated 3:58 p.m. ET Despite their religious faith, many Americans are ignorant of key facts about their own and other world religions, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Continue reading