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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mona Golabek is a concert pianist.  She tells Anne Strainchamps that her grandmother made loving music her parting gift to her daughter.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The French have a curatorial attitude toward their language, but in fact they add new words all the time.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Anne Strainchamps talks with Robert Pinsky, 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, who reads several of the poems people have been sending him since the attacks.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Today, thanks to Black History Month, legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie "Bird" Parker is on our minds.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Novelist Margaret Atwood talks about her latest book, "The Year of the Flood," with Steve Paulson. The book posits a new religion formed after most life on Earth has been obliterated.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jeffrey Eugenides won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel “Middlesex.” He tells Steve Paulson why he chose to use a hermaphrodite as his narrator.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Matthew Brzezinski tells Steve Paulson that he was beaten and robbed soon after his arrival in Ukraine.  He says Moscow is a different planet than the rest of Russia.

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