Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’
The internationally acclaimed horseman Monty Roberts defied the conventional method of breaking horses and developed his own gentler approach — based on horses' non-verbal language. He died on July 31...
7 Aug 45min
Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert
Claire Vaye Watkins' new novel, 'Yellow Pine,' is about a group of misfits and activists in the Mojave desert, fighting a corporate solar development. Living in the desert is "not for everybody," she ...
6 Aug 46min
How Trump made an estimated $2.2 billion last year
New York Times reporter Eric Lipton discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations into Trump’s conflicts of interest and whether he’s exploiting the power of the presidency for self-enrichment. ...
5 Aug 46min
Jean Smart bids farewell to ‘Hacks’
The fifth and final season of the HBO comedy series ‘Hacks’ is nominated for 24 Emmys, including one for Smart as best actress in a comedy series. The writers “raised the bar every single season," Sma...
4 Aug 45min
Miss America ‘68, women’s lib, and the politics of beauty
Historian Micki McElya’s book, ‘Liberation Summer,’ revisits September 1968, when three groups of women converged on the Atlantic City boardwalk: feminists protesting the Miss America Pageant, contest...
3 Aug 45min
Best Of: ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson / Actor Jon Bernthal
Christopher Nolan’s new film ‘The Odyssey’ is a box-office hit, but classics scholar Emily Wilson, who translated Homer’s poem from the original text, says the film’s script is abysmally written, lack...
1 Aug 47min
Remembering Irish singer–songwriter Glen Hansard
Irish musician Glen Hansard, best-known for his band The Frames and his part in the 2007 film ‘Once,’ died July 29 in a motorcycle crash. He was 56. Hansard got his start busking in the streets of Dub...
31 Jul 46min
Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him
Bernthal often plays intense, violent, damaged characters, like Mikey from ‘The Bear’ and Shane from ‘The Walking Dead.’ When talking about himself and his characters, Bernthal says that it’s easy for...
30 Jul 45min
