Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, and Alan Rickman discuss “Seminar,” Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy about the rigors of writing. Erica Heller discusses growing up with her famous father, Joseph Heller. Rosamund Barlett tells us about her new biography of Leo Tolstoy. And our latest Please Explain is all about how the brains of teenagers work!
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Kurt Andersen talks with the novelist Umberto Eco, whose new thriller The Prague Cemetery imagines the author of one of the most notorious books ever written. The celebrated collage artist Romare Bearden is remembered by two friends who were with him in his last days. And the jazz pianist Harold ...
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The Orchestra of Tetouan, Morocco, performs classical Arab-Andalusian music live in our studio. The north Moroccan port city of Tetouan, just a few dozen miles by sea from the southern tip of Spain, became a refuge for Sephardic Jews and Muslims escaping the demise of the culturally rich Al-Andalus and the fall of Granada (the last Muslim city in Spain), in 1492. The music comes from centuries before that – as far back as the 9th Century - and can be traced to an Afro-Arab musician and poet, Ziryâb, a descendant of Persian slaves of African heritage.
