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Sally Rooney, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Conversations with Friends,” and Jeff announces the October book selection. Author - PBS NewsHour....

When students come into Dan Levitin's lab, he spends most of his time trying to teach them that they don't know everything they think they do. "Knowledge can only be created in an environment where we're open to the possibility that we're wrong," he...

Dani Shapiro talks about memoir about her reckoning with an ancestry test that revealed a life-changing family secret: The beloved man who had raised her wasn't her biological father. Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator - PBS NewsHour. Published Date -...

Richard Powers, author of our November pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “The Overstory,” and Jeff announces the December book selection. Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator -...

An actress-turned-first lady. During her more than 50 year marriage, NancyReagan was also the most trusted adviser to her husband, former PresidentRonald Reagan. Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty is out with a newbook about her influence, titled...

In depicting American slavery, Hollywood has long left some of the most brutal realities largely unseen. But the filmmakers behind 12 Years a Slave tried not to flinch in showing the full system of human subjugation. Jeffrey Brown talks to...

Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New YorkTimes book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer readerquestions on “Heart Berries,” and Jeff announces the February bookselection. Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator...

Conventional wisdom held that a college degree was a gateway to a better -- and better-paying -- career and lifestyle. But are those student loans worth it? Paul Solman looks at how a group of recent college graduates is faring in the dismal job...

Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for theperforming arts in an unnamed southern city. But the subjects examined,including consent, power and memory, are universally relevant. “TrustExercise” won the 2019 National Book...

Russia’s HIV epidemic is growing by 10 percent per year, and yet many proven HIV prevention and treatment strategies aren’t being used. William Brangham and Jason Kane report in collaboration with Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and the Pulitzer Center...

Forty years ago, Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing protection from discrimination on the basis of sex -- but it has never been ratified as a constitutional amendment. Now a campaign to ratify the ERA is gathering momentum, in...

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case desegregated America's public schools, but most minority students still attend schools where they are the majority. Gwen Ifill talks to four experts (Sheryll Cashin, John McWhorter, Franklin...

Journalist Haynes Johnson, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton discuss the 50th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman's executive order that formally integrated the armed forces. Author -...

Fifty years after the March on Washington, the vision of the civil rights movement has expanded beyond black and white, but what is left to be done? Gwen Ifill sits down with Peniel Joseph of Tufts University and filmmaker Bonnie Boswell Hamilton on...

Jobs in the trucking industry are increasingly threatened by technology and the rise of driverless trucks. But what explains the contradictory dynamic between fears of job elimination and a current shortage of truck drivers in the U.S.? The NewsHour...

Adam Winkler, author of our October pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins William Brangham to discuss “We the Corporations,” and William announces the November book selection. Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator - PBS...

Nowruz, the Persian holiday celebrating the new year, is observed in Iran and parts of Western and Central Asia. It marks the first day of the vernal equinox. Najmieh Batmanglij, author of eight cookbooks on Iranian cuisine that are widely celebrated...

In chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty's new book, ancestry -- both his own and that of Southern food -- is a central theme. With The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary History in the Old South, Twitty addresses the...

Voormi transforms locally sourced Rocky Mountain sheep wool into high-end outdoor clothing. But the Colorado startup is also hoping to help transform rural communities into small manufacturing hubs, where economic development is needed the most. Hari...

Hobbies can offer an amazing sense of purpose and fulfillment, and many of us acquire new ones as we grow older. But what happens when a pursuit of passion poses risk of physical harm? Novelist Jane Hamilton shares her humble opinion on being willing...

Inspired by the people who have come forward as part of the #MeToo movement, Imani Davis shares her poem “Platinum” and gives her Brief but Spectacular take on how society can overlook wrongdoing by famous artists. Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator -...

In this digital and divided society, it can often seem that language is used primarily to deliver criticism and express rage. But poet Ada Limón shares her humble opinion on why she sees people turning to poetry for language that reflects nuance,...

Pied Piper of Dance: Jacques D'AmboiseD'Amboise was a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet who altered American perceptions of male stereotypes and their roles in dance; he later became the founder of the National Dance Institute. This...

Amos Oz grew up in Israel in the early years of its statehood. Now, in his first book in over a decade, the writer looks back at that time through the eyes of three characters -- each at a different life stage and with a distinctive attitude toward...