

Arts Dec 24

// 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…
By Arts Desk
Arts Dec 17

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.”…
By Arts Desk
Arts Dec 16

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…
By Arts Desk
Nation Dec 14

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…
By News Desk
Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays…
Since 9/11, the activities of the National Security Agency have grown dramatically. Much of the NSA's work gathering intelligence was secret until documents leaked by Edward Snowden were published, revealing the agency had collected phone records from Americans and allies…
Some health coverage deadlines changed to prevent insurance gaps…
Sen. Murray: Bipartisan budget is 'pathway for the future' for divided Congress…
Economist Robert Shiller wins Nobel Prize for his skeptical perspective…
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