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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Nic Pizzolatto tells Steve Paulson about the creative influences that inspired his show, "True Detective."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jim Ridge performs a one man show called "Dickens in America," which he wrote with his friend Jim DeVita.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

When you think about the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement and the last 50 years, it's tempting to think we've become a post-racial society. But University of Pennsylvania professor John Jackson Jr. believes we're seeing a new type of racial divide, characterized by distrust and paranoia.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Joshua Clover explains the subtitle of his book, “1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This To Sing About.”

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jon Katz’ latest book is “The New Work of Dogs.”  Katz says that Americans are forgetting their pets’ true natures and shouldn’t expect them to be children with fur.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.

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