Sep 11 Have you read the 200 'best American novels'? By Victoria Fleischer Over the summer, The American Scholar published two lists of the 100 best American novels from 1770-1985. We've combined the lists and we're asking: which ones have you read? Which books are missing? And which books published since the mid… Continue reading
Sep 01 What we've been reading this summer By Ariel Min As Labor Day winds to an end and the rigors of school and work encroach upon us, we here at the PBS NewsHour thought it would be nice to share some of the books that we've been reading this summer. Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch How a book designer plucks a vision from an author's pages By PBS News Hour If you judge a book by its cover, you might want to know what goes into its design. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Peter Mendelsund, author of “What We See When We Read” and “Cover,” about the process of communicating an… Continue watching
Aug 10 Islam a German secret weapon? New book uncovers forgotten POW camp By Tracy Wholf In author Eugene Rogan’s forthcoming book, The Fall of the Ottomans, Rogan writes about a small and relatively unknown prisoner-of-war camp called Halbmondlager, or ‘Half Moon Camp’ that was specifically designed for Muslim captives. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Letter by letter, turning Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' into a work of art By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch How an unlikely group changed the face of the FBI, retold in 'The Burglary' By PBS News Hour In “The Burglary,” author Betty Medsger tells the story of a group of burglars in 1971 who stole files from a small FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania -- a theft that provided evidence of wide scale surveillance of U.S. citizens. Continue watching
Jul 14 Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer dies at 90 By Margaret Myers Nadine Gordimer, a South African Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote about the oppression in her country during the apartheid era, has died at the age of 90. Continue reading
Jul 04 Watch Library of Congress restores Thomas Jefferson's literary legacy By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 03 Watch Finding empowerment in the words of our founding fathers By PBS News Hour We have lost something in our reading of the Declaration of Independence. This is the argument of Danielle Allen’s new book, “Our Declaration,” where she explores the document through a careful look at the words themselves. Jeffrey Brown talks to… Continue watching