The French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, was presented with a Freedom on Expression award from the PEN American Center this week. Six high-profile writers boycotted the awards ceremony at PEN's big annual gala. Hundreds more protested, while others gave the magazine's editors a standing ovation. The chariman of the PEN World Voices Festival is Colm Toibin, the celebrated Irish novelist. Toibin shares his thoughs on the controversy.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Linda Kauffman talks with Jim Fleming about artists who make deliberately provocative and sensational art. She feels it’s a good thing to challenge our beliefs about what can be seen.
Lendol Calder says being in debt is a good thing. He tells Steve Paulson that consumer credit drives the world economy.
So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.
Jonatha Brooke is a singer and songwriter who was invited by Woody Guthrie's daughter to visit her famous father's archives and use some of his unpublished material. The result is an album called "The Works."
Karen Levine talks with Anne Strainchamps about “Hana’s Suitcase.” Hana Brady perished as a child in a Nazi death camp.
For millennia the Hazara people have been telling folk tales. Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman have collected them in a book called “The Honey Thief.”
Cissy Chandler was 18 years older than her husband, which he may or may not have ever known.
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