While most Americans contend with the risks of gathering with loved ones this holiday season, the over two million people confined in America’s jails and prisons find themselves fighting for survival ...

James Joyce’s Dubliners, once considered scandalous, sacrilegious—and, for a decade, unpublishable—celebrated its 100th year in print in 2014. The stories in the collection peer into the lives of ...

As 2013 approaches, join us for a look back at the landmark cultural year of 1913 – when shock was the norm. See the images and hear the sounds of Modernism in this sneak preview of a new radio ...

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In a live taping of On Being, national public radio’s program about the big questions at the center of human life, host Krista Tippett spoke with Princeton’s Bernard Chazelle about Bach’s human and ...

Excerpt from The Greene Space radio drama, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Scene, Pheoby reunited. Part of the 75th Anniversary celebration of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel. Make a monthly donation of ...

Hailed by The New York Times as “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight.” Leif Ove Andsnes has embarked on a major multi-season project to perform and record the complete Beethoven piano ...

Most of us live with our smart phones within quick reach, reflexively grabbing them at the first hint of boredom during tedious train rides and work meeting lulls. But what might we be losing out on ...

There are over 600 languages spoken in New York City. But Micropolis host Arun Venugopal wonders, which are disappearing? What happens when a language is down to its last few speakers? And how do we ...

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Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, is a powerful new podcast hosted by WNYC’s Kai Wright (There Goes the Neighborhood, The United States of Anxiety) and produced by the Narrative Unit at WNYC ...

When it came to designing the stage for the upcoming Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” director Kenny Leon and set designer Mark Thompson wanted to create as much intimacy between the ...