Genres

Fiction or Non-Fiction? A Veteran Journalist Explains Why He Ventured into Fiction

Yesterday’s segment about new curriculum guidelines that would replace some beloved novels with non-fiction reading in K-12 classrooms sparked a lot of responses listener responses about the virtues of fiction and non-fiction. What’s more important for a high school education: fiction reading or non-fiction reading?    “A mixture of both” listener Shannon wrote on The […]

Is Literature Necessary?

The World

Syrians Who Fight Back With Satire

Conflict & Justice
The World

Everything’s Better in 3-D

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Everything’s Better in 3-D

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Egypt’s Ali G.

Global Politics

A new Egyptian TV show features a fake Italian talk show host who interviews unsuspecting Egyptian officials. He asks them sexually suggestive questions, which is taboo in Egypt. But the host steers well clear of political satire. Julia Simon reports.

The World

The politics of poetry

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Alex Gallafent reports on the debate in Britain over what makes a poem a poem.