The protest at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has caught fire. Its camp is now larger than most small towns in North Dakota. The protest is not just about an oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. It's about water. Journalist John Fleck, who's spent decades writing about water disputes in the West, tells Anne Strainchamps how the Standing Rock protest figures into this history.
Steve Paulson reports on the tremendous influence and great power of the Pulitzer Prize winning Michiko Kakutani. She’s the provocative and controversial daily book reviewer for the New York Times.
The novelist and feminist critic talks about tackling her trolls and “writing to the point of uncomfortability.”
Sy Montgomery talks about a very personable octopus, and the species's remarkable intelligence.
Salman Ahmad, lead singer of the Pakistani rock group Junoon, talks with Anne Strainchamps about being a Muslim and a rock musician.
Travel writer Tony Perrotet has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he skipped the Mediterranean tour, choosing Tierra del Fuego or the Amazon over Rome. But the discovery of an ancient guide book launched him on his most exotic journey yet, in the footsteps of the Ancients.
Scott Turow has made a career writing hugely successful legal thrillers, but then he turned to a World War II novel.
The 1967 Ice Bowl is one of football's legendary showdowns, when the wind chill dipped to 50 below zero. Commentator Bill Povletich remembers this historic game.
