David Krasnow appears in the following:
Laura Cantrell Sings Kitty Wells
Friday, February 21, 2014
When she died in 2012 at age 92, Kitty Wells was the oldest living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her music can still surprise unsuspecting listeners.
Video: Laura Cantr...
Live In-Studio: Neneh Cherry’s Soul Punk Project
Friday, February 07, 2014
Neneh Cherry has floated between underground acclaim and pop stardom. She has the life of a musical Zelig: raised by jazz great Don Cherry among cultural luminaries like Allen Ginsber...
Beyond Koyaanisqatsi: A New Film from Godfrey Reggio
Friday, January 31, 2014
Godfrey Reggio’s films “are like a cat that barks. They’re unusual, the names of the films are off the wall,” he tells Kurt Andersen. Most people know Reggio for the 1982 film Koyaa...
Exclusive Videos: Neneh Cherry Is Back
Monday, January 13, 2014
Neneh Cherry has floated between underground acclaim and pop stardom. She’s gone decades without releasing an album, but when she does, it matters. But Blank Project (coming in Feb...
Aha Moment: The Dream Syndicate
Friday, January 03, 2014
For 20 years, Sam Coomes has led the band Quasi along with the drummer Janet Weiss, carrying the torch for a punk music that’s relevant, funny, and hard-hitting well into middle age....
Jesmyn Ward: Waiting for Katrina
Friday, January 03, 2014
Jesmyn Ward was an unknown novelist when her second book, Salvage the Bones, won the National Book Award in 2011. She’s recently written a memoir called The Men We Reaped that ended u...
American Icons: The Scarlet Letter
Friday, November 01, 2013
One of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestors was a judge in the Salem witch trials. In his novel of early America, Hawthorne explores the tension between our deeply ingrained Puritanism and...
American Icons: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Friday, October 25, 2013
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to promote the abolitionist cause. So how did Uncle Tom become the byword for a race traitor — a “shuffling, kowtowing, sniveling coward”...
American Icons: The Disney Parks
Friday, October 18, 2013
Generations of Americans have grown up with Walt Disney shaping our imaginations. We’ll tour Disneyland with its art director, a second-generation Imagineer, who explains why even the...
American Icons: Untitled Film Stills
Friday, October 11, 2013
In the 1980s, Cindy Sherman began taking self-portraits that showed her in costumes and scenarios that looked just like movie stills, although they were her own inventions. In a media...
American Icons: Leaves of Grass
Friday, September 27, 2013
Walt Whitman set out to invent a radically new form of poetry for a new nation. His book was first viewed as bizarre and obscene — one reviewer said that the author should be publicly...
American Icons: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Friday, September 20, 2013
Ken Kesey had worked in a mental hospital, but his first novel was really a parable of what happens when you stand up to the Man — a counterculture fable that doesn’t end well.
American Icons: Anything Goes
Friday, September 13, 2013
Cole Porter lived in Europe during the 1920s, and returned to American to write a sharp satire of this freewheeling era that has outlived the people and events it referred to. Music h...
American Icons: Native Son
Friday, September 06, 2013
The story of a young man in the ghetto who turns to murder was an overnight sensation. But some think Native Son exploited the worst stereotypes of black youth. We trace the line from...
Marriage in the Movies
Friday, March 22, 2013
Love in the movies is about the flirtation, the exciting courtship, the comic mismatch, the embarrassing one-night stand — not waking up next to someone every day for the rest of your...
The Flame Alphabet
Friday, March 08, 2013
William S. Burroughs famously said that “language is a virus.” Novelist Ben Marcus took Burrough's line as inspiration for The Flame Alphabet. In the book, the language of children ha...
Our Computers, Our Viruses, Our Selves
Friday, March 08, 2013
Computer viruses have evolved from an annoyance to a national security threat. Recently the Department of Homeland Security told Americans to disable Java on our home computers (a thi...
Lois Lowry: The End of The Giver
Friday, January 04, 2013
Lois Lowry’s The Giver is one of the most celebrated children’s books of our era, and one of the most banned. Son, the final book in The Giver series, tells the story of Claire. Assig...
Lois Lowry Confirms Jeff Bridges to Film The Giver
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Lois Lowry's incredibly popular series for young adults hits the big screen, starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, and Meryl Streep. Watch the trailer.
Gary Marcus: Defining Creativity
Friday, November 23, 2012
Kurt Andersen talks with Gary Marcus about what science knows, and doesn’t know, about creativity. Marcus is the director of New York University’s Center for Language and Music, and ...
