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[Several different images in remembrance of Peter Verigin]
Several different images in remembrance of Peter Verigin.
[Group portrait of four Doukhobor women in an unknown location]
Group portrait of four Doukhobor women in an unknown location. Each woman is shown holding a small tray of berries.
[Portrait of a Doukhobor woman sitting in a chair in an unknown location]
Portrait of a Doukhobor woman sitting in a chair in an unknown location.
[Doukhobor man sitting at a desk in an unknown location]
Doukhobor man sitting at a desk in an unknown location.
Zimbabwe's Petina Gappah casts new light on David Livingstone's search for the source of the Nile
Zimbabwean author Petina Gappah spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about her novel, Out of Darkness, Shining Light, which re-imagines the 19th-century explorer and missionary David Livingstone through the eyes of his many African companions. Focusing on the African companions, servants and enslaved people who took Livingstone's body from present-day Zambia, where he died in 1873, to Zanzibar, the novel is a moving exploration of power, violence and resilience in pre-colonial Africa.
Historian Simon Schama on Landscape and Memory
Eleanor Wachtel interviews British American historian Simon Schama. Eminently readable and provocative, Schama won a popular following with Citizens, his unconventional history of the French Revolution. Now he's written another book that defies categories called Landscape and Memory.
Ariel Dorfman on Heading South, Looking North. Also, a recording of Arthur Miller reading from an unpublished memoir
Pt. 1: From Chile and the United States, Ariel Dorfman. The author of Death and the Maiden talks about his latest book, Heading South, Looking North; Pt. 2: American playwright Arthur Miller reads from his brand new unpublished memoir.