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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The celebrated Irish novelist Colm Toibin talks about his admiration for the poet Elizabeth Bishop and the kinship he feels for her.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The asexual movement calls into question everything you thought you knew about love and romance.  We talk with David Jay, founder of AVEN, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

What does it mean to be free?  And what does it mean to live a personally authentic, honest life with ourselves and with others? These are the questions that Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their existential friends wrestled with in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sarah Bakewell makes the case that their late-night conversations are especially relevant today. She's the author of "At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Frank Rich tells Jim Fleming that the Broadway musicals of his childhood were all about dysfunctional families and helped him cope with his own difficult family situation.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Donovan Campbell commanded a platoon of Marines in Ramadi. He tells Steve Paulson that to understand the events of April 6, you have to know what went on the night before.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

"Religion always starts with mysticism," says David Steindl-Rast. Now 89, he's been a Benedictine monk since 1953. Brother David was one of the first Roman Catholics to engage in dialogues between Christians and Buddhists. He tells Steve Paulson about the joys of life in the monastery.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Edmund White looks back over 50 years of gay love and liberation.  Although married, White has resisted what he calls “gay assimilation”.  He talks about the politics of gay sex and promiscuity.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Diamanda Galas is a classically trained pianist, with a vocal range of three and a half octaves whose music is dark and intense.

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