Arts Dec 19 31 books you should add to your holiday reading list Hello viewers and book lovers -- you know who you are -- and welcome to our holiday book picks. We asked members of our staff to recommend books that moved them this past year, newly published works but also oldies…
Arts Aug 09 How a ‘custody war’ broke out over a famous patient’s damaged brain In the new book "Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets," Luke Dittrich tells the story of the man known to science for decades under that moniker. But Dittrich does something more, because the man who performed…
Arts Aug 04 Svetlana Alexievich’s stories of life, longing and suffering under Soviet rule "Secondhand Time" is the first book by Alexievich to appear in English since she was awarded the Nobel and it continues her series of works exploring the long sweep of Soviet culture and politics.
Arts Jun 02 Judy Collins still turn, turn, turning with new album at 77 Folk legend Judy Collins, known for her critically acclaimed covers of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” and Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” has been making music since the 1960s. Now, at the age of 77, she is still going…
Arts Jul 06 ‘Do I look like a ‘shroom salesman?’ and other things overheard at a Dead show One man walked directly up to me and asked if I had any mushrooms to sell him. I thought, "Really? Do I look like that guy?" The Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well concert in Chicago was a scene -- a…
World Jun 15 Reporting from Cuba, a place frozen in time yet full of potential Deciding to go to Cuba was the easy part, for all the obvious reasons: the history, the politics, the culture, the place, the fact of it being — the cliché is true — so close and yet so far away.
Arts Jun 10 Son of migrants, Juan Felipe Herrera to become first Latino U.S. Poet Laureate He’s the son of migrant workers and today Juan Felipe Herrera becomes the next U.S. Poet Laureate, the first Latino to hold the position. Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met Herrera at the place where it all started.
Arts Feb 20 Reporter’s Notebook: the difficulty of getting to Timbuktu For these trips, these stories, we calibrate the details so finely – the days away, the money spent, the interviews to be done, the shots we have to get, the places we have to get to. Take out one thing…
Poetry Feb 02 Poet W. S. Merwin recites ‘Rain Light’ among the lush palms at his Maui home W. S. Merwin reads his poem "Rain Light" from his home in Hawaii.
Arts Jan 30 ‘Isn’t that Keanu Reeves?’ and other phrases overheard at Sundance Despite the hoopla and the frenzied celebrity sightings, Sundance is still about the films. But what happens to all these movies after Sundance?…