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The Blue Line: A Novel

Ingrid Betancourt, Alicia Partnoy

Ingrid Betancourt In conversation with Alicia Partnoy, author and professor Betancourt, the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist, whose New York…

Burning Voices:
Stories That Fuel Us

Luis J. Rodriguez, John Densmore, Michael Meade

Allen Ginsberg spoke of “the voice in the burning bush,” that illuminates as in a fire, yet never destroys even…

Elizabeth Alexander on Dreaming

Elizabeth Alexander

In this short clip from Kinds of Blue: Two Poets, Elizabeth Alexander touches on the relationship between dreams and poetry.

Kinds of Blue:
Two Poets

Elizabeth Alexander, Kevin Young

Acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander, who composed and delivered the 2009 inauguration poem for President Obama, offers…

Brian Seibert on the Evolution of Tap

Brian Seibert, Sasha Anawalt

Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap…

What the Eye Hears:
A History of Tap Dancing

Brian Seibert, Sasha Anawalt, Tap Music Project

Brian Seibert, a dance critic for The New York Times, offers an authoritative account of the great American art of tap…

A Wild Swan:
Fairy Tales Reimagined

Michael Cunningham, Aimee Bender

A poisoned apple and a monkey’s paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes…

Impossible Idealism:
Inventing a Moral Life

What does it mean to devote yourself to helping others? Larissa MacFarquhar, a staff writer for The New Yorker, follows the…

Lauren Groff on Marriage

The award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia delivers an exhilarating new novel about the creative…

Fates and Furies

The award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia delivers an exhilarating new novel about the creative partnership of marriage, and…