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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There are moral and ethical issues that come up around war photography. Writer David Shields charged the New York Times with glamorizing war in photographs.  Shields analyzed 100’s of pictures published on the front page of the Times and last year he wrote a book accusing the paper of making war beautiful.  Charles Monroe-Kane sat down to talk with him.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

 The whole town of Massillon, Ohio, is obsessed with their high school football team, the Tigers. Former player Kenneth Carlson was so crazy for the team, and curious about his town's obsession, he made a documentary about it. He tells Anne Strainchamps about his film, his team and his town.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wesley Stace has a new novel, "Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Fashion photographer David Jay recently sent us a book of his photos. The lighting was perfect. The settings intimate. The women, nearly naked, were gorgeous.  As we looked at these beautiful images, something stood out – the mastectomy scars.

 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

There's a special mystique to the number pi -- songs have been written about it and there's a day  named after it.  Jordan Ellenberg explains why.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Paine is the author of a novel called “The Pearl of Kuwait.” It follows the experiences of a Vietnamese-American Marine during the first Gulf War.

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Photographer William Christenberry takes pictures of simple buildings in forgotten corners of his home place of Hale County, Alabama, year after year to document how they change over time.

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Journalist and educator Thomas Kunkel recommends "Here Is New York" by E.B. White.

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