In his new book “Better Living Through Criticism,” A.O. Scott distills his decades-long career into a simple to read manifesto that not only explains the qualities of a good critic, but argues their fundamental importance to any culture.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Albert Glinsky is the author of “Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage.” The book is a biography of Leon Theremin and a history of the instrument that bears his name.
Anne Strainchamps reports on the new vogue for hand-made goods in America. She visits a major crafts show and speaks with vendors and shoppers.
You may not know his name, but to tens of thousands of Native Americans, Bronson Koenig is their hero. He's a star player on the Wisconsin Badgers, an NBA hopeful, and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. And now, he's a Standing Rock protester. Steve Paulson caught up with Koenig just before he joined the protest in North Dakota.
Amy Tan tells Anne Strainchamps about her family history and her mother's belief in fate and the power of their Chinese ancestors.
Worried about getting old? Amy Gorman was, so she went looking for inspiration among old women - some who were over 100.
Shattered by her father's sudden death, writer Helen Macdonald began dreaming of wild hawks. In an effort to move beyond her grief, she bought and trained a wild goshawk -- one of the world's fiercest birds of prey. But between the bird and her grief, she became, in her words "more hawk than human."
Alice Walker talks about some of the poems in her book “Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth,” inspired by the events of September 11th.
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