Arts Mar 11 Conversation: Protecting Egypt’s Antiquities Jeffrey Brown talks to Thomas Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who released a statement last week expressing concern about the safety of Egypt's antiquities.
Arts Mar 10 Julie Taymor Out as Director of ‘Spider-man’ The curtain has closed for Julie Taymor, director of the problem-plagued Broadway musical, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." The show's producers announced Wednesday night that Taymor will be stepping down and that Philip William McKinley will replace her.
Arts Mar 07 Weekly Poem: ‘Green Door’ Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction and is the editor of other works. He teaches at the University of Minnesota.
Arts Mar 02 ‘Fifty April Years’ Libyan poet, translator and associate professor at the University of Michigan Khaled Mattawa reads "'Fifty April Years," a poem about Libya.
Arts Mar 01 Conversation: Libyan Poet Khaled Mattawa Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, which is now much in the news, and came to the United States as a teenager in 1979. Jeffrey Brown spoke to Mattawa about the uprising in Libya, and about the history of…
Arts Feb 28 Monday on the NewsHour: A Look at ‘Parazit’ More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with "Parazit" duo Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi.
Arts Feb 25 Conversation: A.O. Scott Previews the Oscars The 83rd Academy Awards are Sunday night in Los Angeles, and for a preview of the ceremony and a break down of the nominees, Jeffrey Brown speaks to New York Times Film critic A.O. Scott.
Arts Feb 17 Conversation: Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Prose’ Although publishing relatively little, roughly 100 poems, Elizabeth Bishop wrote volumes, and over the last decade nearly all of her unpublished work has been made public. Last week, two new books were added to the Bishop's canon, titled simply "Poetry"…
Arts Feb 11 Conversation: Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti, Part 2 of 2 We've asked three authors -- Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti -- attending the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington to come in and talk about their world.
Arts Feb 10 Conversation: Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti, Part 1 of 2 We've asked three authors -- Andrew Altschul, Joshua Ferris and Hannah Tinti -- attending the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington to come in and talk about their world.