Ms. Clinton, Ms. Obama, Ms. Palin. They’ve riveted, and divided, the nation — and sparked fresh debates about gender and sexism. We’ll hear women’s views on the women of ‘08.
Comments [78]Susan Faludi was a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who, in the 1990s, walked away from daily deadlines to become a big-time feminist interpreter of American life. She’s tough and she’s startling.
Now, Faludi is looking at post-9/11 America, and here’s what she sees: a frightened country that has retreated to a core national myth from the wells [...]
Novelist Doris Lessing waited a long time for her Nobel. At almost 88, there’s never been an older winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, announced yesterday in Stockholm.
But Doris Lessing has always been on her own path. As a girl in colonial Rhodesia who broke out of convent school and made herself a writer. [...]
In an archive edition of On Point, we jam with guitar legend Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon of Phish.
What a year: Obama, bailouts, and the economy in crisis. Russian tanks in Georgia. The Beijing Olympics, and more. Our news roundtable looks back at 2008.
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In an archive edition of On Point, we look at Sacred Harp music, a centuries-old American tradition of shape-note singing and its revival around the country today.
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Photographer Annie Leibovitz talks about the most important public - and personal - images of her celebrated career.
