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Arts Nov 17
WATCH: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the Miami Book FairThis Saturday and Sunday, watch live interviews with author John Grisham, young adult novelist Kwame Alexander, novelist Sandra Cisneros, historian Michael Beschloss, commentator Rebecca Traister and more.
Arts Sep 24
Author Angie Thomas sheds light on ‘private, hidden conversations’ about race, says former professorThe founder of the creative writing program that inspired author Angie Thomas to write “The Hate U Give” remembers how the book started.
Arts Nov 19
WATCH: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the Miami Book FairThe 33rd annual Miami Book Fair, hosted at Miami Dade College, has gathered hundreds of authors and readers for a three-day event that lasts Nov. 18-20.
Arts Sep 24
Watch: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at the National Book FestivalWatch interviews with Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates and more than a dozen other authors at the National Book Festival.
Arts Jun 10
Tony-nominated ‘King Charles III’ offers a new view of the royal familyA fictional exploration of Britain's most famous family is written in the style of one of Shakespeare's history plays.
Arts Apr 09
WATCH: Jeffrey Brown interviews authors at LA Times Festival of BooksMore than 500 authors are set to appear at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend for one of the largest literary events of the year.
Arts Mar 02
What causes some Muslim-Americans to become radicalized?Peter Bergen studied how homegrown and self-radicalized terrorism develops in the U.S. for his new book "United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists."…
Arts Feb 24
How the director of ‘Theeb’ created the Oscars’ only ‘Bedouin western’"Theeb," a quietly stunning coming-of-age story set in the Bedouin culture of present-day Saudi Arabia, maps a young Bedouin boy's journey after he is left to care for himself.
Arts Feb 23
Banned by Nazis, composer’s work appears onstage 90 years laterWhat do dance and social justice have in common? “No Longer Silent,” a new piece from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, provides one answer.
Poetry Jan 12
Poet Reginald Dwayne Betts on America’s ‘lost generation’Reginald Dwayne Betts grew up an honor student with hopes for college, but went to prison at 16 for carjacking, his first run-in with the law. Reading, and poetry in particular, became a comfort and gave him a new identity.