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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Suzan Colon tells Anne Strainchamps how her grandparents kept their spirits alive while times were tough.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nina Simone's powerful voice and turbulent life are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a new biography and a forthcoming Hollywood biopic.  But it's her politics that speaks most forcefully to a new generation of African American activists.  Biographer Alan Light talks about the incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sherman Alexie is one of America’s most acclaimed young writers with strong opinions about what it means to be a “real” Indian.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

A film from the point-of-view of the perpetrators, not the victims, of the 1965 killing of over 1,000,000 suspected Communists in Indonesia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The novelist and feminist critic talks about tackling her trolls and “writing to the point of uncomfortability.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jedediah Berry imagines a future where science can unlock buried thoughts.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Stefan Kanfer tells Jim Fleming that Groucho Marx flaunted authority his whole life, and that the price of his comedic genius was a tormented private life.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Tom Carson is a novelist, television critic and the author of “Gilligan’s Wake.”  He talks about blending James Joyce’s classic “Finnegan’s Wake” with those seven wacky castaways from “Gilligan’s Island.”

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