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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books and has won numerous awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  His latest book is called “Francisco Goya: A Life.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

David Sterritt tells Steve Paulson about beatnik filmmaker Bruce Conner, the father of the music video and creator of a style of video montage that prefigures today's upcycling movement.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A final reflection on time from 92 year old writer and former book editor Diana Athill.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jonathan Lethem bookmarks "Kafka Was the Rage" by Anatole Broyard.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Hans Ulrich Obrist's dangerous idea is to create a museum for projects that haven't been completed—he calls it "A Palace of Unbuilt Roads."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Doris Kearns Goodwin talks with Jim Fleming about her best-selling biography, "Team of Rivals."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Biologist and science writer David Bainbridge tells Steve Paulson that a prolonged adolescence is unique to humans and one of our greatest evolutionary advantages.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The invention of mechanical clocks created a kind of artificial time which permits greater efficiency, but cuts human beings off from the rest of nature.

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