On Point: Books
Summary: A live, two-hour morning news-analysis program.
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Podcasts:
We go to Congo with a young journalist who lived and reported there and look at how we get our foreign news today.
Elizabeth Kolbert takes on humanity, right now, driving a great wave of extinctions around the planet. Plus, a top religious scholar on serpent handlers in America.
On Valentine's Day, we're talking booty --pirate booty--and the last days of the world's most notorious pirate, Blackbeard.
The best-selling literary genre in the world: romance novels. We'll look at the red-hot literature of love.
Susan Cheever on the poet e.e. cummings, all lower-case, and radical.
A new biography of Edward Snowden lays out the life and motivations of the world's "most wanted man."
Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen joins us on Florida life and politics, from Marco Rubio to Trayvon Martin.
"Tiger Mom" Amy Chua and her husband, Jed Rubenfeld, are back, this time with their take - an explosive look — at what makes some ethnic and cultural groups successful in America.
The deep history of American Football. Ahead of Super Bowl XLVIII, 400 years of pain and glory.
Life, love and "Middlemarch." Rebecca Mead on why she can't stop reading George Eliot's great Victorian novel.
Gabriel Sherman on Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes and our polarized American media, from Fox to MSNBC.
Master conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner on the earthly and heavenly Johann Sebastian Bach.
We go back to the future with a new look at the Parthenon of Ancient Greece, Athens, and the foundations of democracy.
Hobbitmania returns, and we look at the real legacy of druids and celts in the "Middle Earth" of Iron Age Western Europe.
Novelist and biographer Jay Parini takes on the still-unfolding story of Jesus.
