Arts Oct 17 Conversation: Cellist Maya Beiser’s ‘Elsewhere’ With its elements of music, singing, theater, dance and video, "Elsewhere" is described by its creator, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser, as a "CelloOpera." It's a collaboration of Beiser and theater director Robert Woodruff that tells the Biblical story of Lot's…
Arts Oct 10 Around the Nation Here are four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners around the nation.
Arts Oct 08 Monday on the NewsHour: Salman Rushdie More of Jeffrey Brown's interview with writer Salman Rushdie.
Arts Oct 08 Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien, Author of ‘Flowers of Hell,’ Dies at Age 73 Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent 27 years in communist prisons and was the acclaimed author of "Flowers of Hell," died last week in California after a long bout of illness.
Arts Oct 04 Conversation: Kevin Powers, Author of ‘The Yellow Birds’ Jeffrey Brown talks to Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds" and who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005.
Arts Oct 02 Writers, Photographers, Filmmakers Among 2012 MacArthur Fellows Nearly half of this year's MacArthur Fellows come from arts-related fields.
Arts Sep 28 Conversation: Junot Diaz The writer Junot Diaz is back with a new collection of stories titled "This Is How You Lose Her." They feature several characters from his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," which won the Pulitzer Prize for…
Arts Sep 21 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Talks About Her New Job and Fourth Book The new official face of American poetry is one familiar to NewsHour viewers. Natasha Trethewey has just taken on the job of poet laureate of the United States, appointed by the Librarian of Congress. She's the author of four books…
Arts Sep 20 Conversation: Director Jonathan Demme on His New Film and Hero, Carolyn Parker The film is titled "I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful," and indeed Carolyn Parker is all those things and more. A resident of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,…
Arts Sep 14 Conversation: ‘Broadway or Bust’ on PBS Have you ever wanted to be on Broadway? Well, thousands of young people from around the country do, and a new PBS series is documenting their struggle to get there. It's called "Broadway or Bust," produced by WGBH in Boston.