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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Many things can evoke a memory. Like a smell. Or a touch. When Mamek Khadem wanted to evoke the memory of her native Iran during the Islamic revolution in 1979, she did it with music. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Rachel Naomi Remen tells Steve Paulson it’s important to treat the whole person, not just the disease and says she has no idea what happens at the end of life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Punk legend Patti Smith.  40 years ago, she came out with the seminal punk album Horses –with cover photo by her friend and lover Robert Mappelthorpe.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

So romance is about attraction, about intimacy, and sometimes about sex. Sometimes, it's also about love. And love is all around.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Chang's new novel follows the lives of students and one particular professor in a creative writing program in the Midwest.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Anthony Neal considers himself a feminist and thinks that the traditional stereotypes of the Strong Black Man have contributed to the problems that Black men face today.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sonic Youth co-founder Kim Gordon’s new memoir, “Girl in a Band,” is on our minds this week. The book chronicles the influential band’s career and the end of the marriage between Gordon and fellow co-founder Thurston Moore after 27 years.

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