Sep 15 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, David Foster Wallace's last, unfinished work will be published next year. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch Texas Poet Twists Newsprint Into Verse Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from discarded newspapers, as demonstrated in his new book "Newspaper Blackout." Jeffrey Brown reports as part of the NewsHour's poetry series. Continue watching
Sep 14 Mexico Dispatch: Perception vs. Reality at One Beach Town ROSARITO BEACH, Mexico | Walking or driving down boulevard Benito Juarez, the main street of Rosarito Beach, gives no hints of the struggles this tourist community has been fighting for the past four years. As the sun sinks over… Continue reading
Sep 14 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Austin Kleon’s ‘Newspaper Blackout’ Austin Kleon is a Texas-based poet, writer, cartoonist and designer. He's found a playful way of making poetry from the newspaper. His first book, "Newspaper Blackout," was published this summer. Continue reading
Sep 14 Update | Mott’s Strike Settled: Workers Returning to Apple Sauce Factory By Paul Solman There was considerable viewer interest in last week's story on increased U.S. productivity being caused by a reservoir of unemployed workers, allowing firms to pressure workers to toil longer and harder for the same or lower wages. Our… Continue reading
Sep 14 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a photographer who made some of the most famous images of the Civil Rights era was also spying on his subjects. Continue reading
Sep 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Antietam’ By Tom LeGro Sandra Beasley is the author of "I Was the Jukebox," winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and "Theories of Falling," winner of the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Continue reading
Sep 13 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Sofia Coppola won the Gold Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival, and filmmaker Claude Chabrol died Sunday at age 80. Continue reading
Sep 10 Conversation: Historian Sean Wilentz, Author of ‘Bob Dylan in America’ By Molly Finnegan Sean Wilentz grew up in Greenwich Village at the height of its bohemian influence in the 1950s and 60s. He is now the author of a new non-fiction book, "Bob Dylan in America," which combines biography, social history and cultural… Continue reading
Sep 10 9 Years of ‘Unbuilding’ the World Trade Center in New York By Travis Daub Sept. 11, 2010, marks nine years since terror attacks struck the Pentagon, Shanksville, Pa., and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. This collection of aerial and satellite photos, taken from 1954 to 2009, reveal both… Continue reading