A Poetic Odyssey: Dick Davis translates Hafez in “Faces of Love,” his new installment in a life dedicated to medieval Persian literature
// Dick Davis spoke to PBS NewsHour chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book "Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz." According to Dick Davis, Hafez is the poetry world's version of Bach. "People say…
The magic behind ‘Masterpiece’: Rebecca Eaton shares memories of bringing British dramas to PBS
Rebecca Eaton, executive producer of Masterpiece on PBS, talks to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about her decades long career creating British dramas. Rebecca Eaton grew up an Anglophile, reading British novels and “pretending to be the heroines.”…
Music writer Robert Hilburn on the love, artistry and comeback of Johnny Cash
Robert Hilburn talks to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about his new book, “Johnny Cash: The Life.” “Johnny Cash talked right from the heart,” says Robert Hilburn, longtime former music critic for the Los Angeles Times and author…
One year after Newtown, have your views on gun control, mental health changed?
Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images It was one year ago today when reports came in of a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. By the end of that day, 20 children and seven adults --including the shooter's…
An MRI of a patient's brain 19 hours after a fall shows bleeding and damage to the meninges, the lining between the skull and the brain. Photo by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Concussions and traumatic…
The 2012 Program for International Student Assessment are out, revealing how more than 60 countries compare with one another in reading, math and science.
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Why Students Who Underperform, Fall Behind or Fail Classes Drop Out of School…
