Dec 29 Watch 6:25 Poet Robin Coste Lewis evokes the black female form across history By PBS News Hour "Voyage of the Sable Venus," the first collection from Robin Coste Lewis, is the winner of this year's National Book Award for poetry. Lewis discussed her debut, her readers and her influences with Jeffrey Brown at the Miami Book Festival. Continue watching
Dec 23 Watch 7:31 6 of the best books to curl up with from 2015 By PBS News Hour What were the must-read books of 2015? Jeffrey Brown gets favorite picks from Daniel Pink, business writer and author of "Drive," and novelist Jennifer Close, author of "The Smart One."… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch 6:25 Author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar turns his powers of observation to Sherlock's brother By PBS News Hour Mycroft Holmes is the elusive and possibly more intelligent older brother of Sherlock Holmes. Now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -- NBA All-Star, writer and Arthur Conan Doyle devotee -- has co-authored a novel about the lesser known but no less intriguing brother… Continue watching
Nov 03 Watch Why novelist John Irving's latest protagonist is a fiction writer By PBS News Hour In novelist John Irving’s new book, “Avenue of Mysteries,” a poor child in Mexico picks up books from out of the trash and grows up to be a prominent American writer. Irving joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss what distinguishes his… Continue watching
Nov 02 Watch 7:20 For Elvis Costello, eclectic taste and self-reinvention started at home By PBS News Hour For British rock star Elvis Costello, music is in his blood. How did his family, like his jazz musician father, influence him while he found his own path as an artist? He joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his new memoir,… Continue watching
Nov 02 Watch 6:20 How the Islamic State group justifies brutality with an apocalyptic vision By PBS News Hour The Islamic State militant group is taking advantage of chaos and upheaval in the Middle East to recruit fighters by prophesying the end of days, says William McCants, an early Islam historian. McCants joins chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch 6:21 Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home By PBS News Hour Writer Sandra Cisneros has spent her entire life searching for a sense of belonging, a search chronicled in a new essay collection, “A House of My Own: Stories From My Life.” She sits down with Jeffrey Brown at the Mexican… Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch 7:13 How social entrepreneurs are changing the world By PBS News Hour In “Getting Beyond Better,” Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, explores how social entrepreneurs can confront the status quo to improve the lives of others in real, measurable ways. She sits down for a conversation with economics… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch 8:22 What a more interconnected world means for the Supreme Court By PBS News Hour The Supreme Court is often the final say on major domestic conflicts of our time. But what about when foreign law crosses paths with our legal system? Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joins Judy Woodruff to discuss his new book,… Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch 7:32 What it was like to head the Fed during the 2008 meltdown By PBS News Hour In “The Courage to Act,” former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke writes that the global economic collapse of 2008 could have resulted in a crisis akin to 1929 had he, his colleagues and policymakers around the world acted differently. He… Continue watching