Pamela Renner

Georgia used to be something like Russia’s California -- good wine, mild weather, beautiful countryside, and even a vibrant movie industry. Georgian movies were like a breath of fresh air in the ideological Soviet film industry. Pamela Renner reports on how filmmakers today are trying to navigate ...

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For the one-in-ten children nationally who struggle with asthma, breathing can be uncommonly difficult. It can even be a matter of life or death. The asthma rates are closer to one-in-three in poor communities where deteriorating housing stock and inconsistent heating in the winter make ...

Lisa, a young, insecure author is desperate for material. She gains the trust of a writing teacher and unearths a secret the teacher has guarded for years — and then Lisa turns that secret into her first novel. That’s the plot of Collected Stories a play by Donald ...

In November 1951, the American poet Elizabeth Bishop was 40, and already one of America’s most important poets. But she was lonely, drank a lot, and was often ill from asthma. So she booked a voyage to Brazil, and there she met the love of her life and ...

When we think of Soviet Art, we think of the propaganda posters and the figurative heroic paintings and sculpture that glorified the Soviet leaders. That kind of Social Realism dominated official art in Russia, starting in the 1930's. But artists found ways to pursue their own ...