Arts
The Arts
!["The Apache believe that Mount Graham is the dwelling place of mountain spirits and a source of supernatural power." — The Oak Flat Lauren Redniss/Random House](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/redniss_142-143-4c66a234d6a6f88dbed2612a93f829976fa9e46e-500x500.jpg)
‘Oak Flat’ Tells The Story Of An Apache Tribe Fighting To Save Its Land From Mining
Artist and writer Lauren Redniss mixes art, design, and rigorous research with a prose style that is at once assertive, journalistic and poetic to create a book like no other.
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2020’s National Book Awards Strive For Inclusivity
This year’s National Book Awards — announced in a first-ever virtual streaming ceremony — went mostly to writers of color, as the foundation that gives the prizes vowed to be more inclusive.
![Photo of Jericho Brown from a recording of Traverse Talks with Sueann Ramella](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/147A5149-500x500.jpg)
‘Traverse Talks’ Episode 5: Pulitzer Winner Jericho Brown On The Importance Of Name And Truth
Pulitzer-winning poet Jericho Brown shares how growing up in a Black church exposed him to the art of performative poetry at a young age and how that propelled him to dedicate his life to poetry starting in his early twenties.
!["I feel proud of myself now, as a 45-year-old woman, to have just played a role in which ... my age really shows on my face," says Kate Winslet. She plays British paleontologist Mary Anning in the new film Ammonite. Courtesy of Neon](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/prod_day4_a015_c003_0315fh.0001418_custom-787cbda1d41cf02ae287861c93c7209b0169944d-500x500.jpg)
Kate Winslet’s ‘Ammonite’ Takes On Paleontology, Patriarchy And Passion
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in the new film, which imagines a romantic relationship between British paleontologist Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison, the young wife of a geologist.
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Lights, Camera, Action: How Vancouver (AKA ‘Hollywood North’) Revved Up Despite COVID
The film and TV industry in British Columbia is busier than ever in spite of COVID and partly because of COVID. The place sometimes called Hollywood North is benefiting from high demand for new content from networks and streaming services. The much smaller film industries in next door Washington state and Oregon are rebounding more slowly from the region wide shutdown earlier this year.
Illusionist Scott Silven Can Turn A Video Call Into A Magical ‘Journey’
The Journey is an ingenious use of a virtual performance space. Silven invites 30 audience members to travel to his childhood home in Scotland where they interact in amazing feats of magic.
![Book cover - A Promised Land by Barack Obama](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/obama_custom-4a93807b1fec3a787796384624751bd5ff69787a-500x500.jpg)
BOOK REVIEW: Barack Obama Tells His Story His Way — And Makes His Case For History
Obama’s ascent thrilled millions but also stirred a countermovement that is still on the march. His new memoir, A Promised Land, covers his rise through the second year of his presidency.
![A former ballerina named Marta C. González, dancing to the music of Swan Lake in a video still from YouTube.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/marta-c-gonzalez-fc99080448d6a974c24a0556ae18f7d917df43ea-500x500.jpg)
Struck With Memory Loss, A Dancer Remembers ‘Swan Lake.’ But Who Is She?
Viewers worldwide are responding to a moving video of Marta C. González, a former dancer afflicted with dementia. But critics are questioning whether González is who the clip makers claim she is.
![Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, by Katherine May](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/a1p6ln9xldl_custom-7c62a7748ef0107b0117a2da161b3f1cef524d91-500x500.jpg)
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Wintering,’ Encourages ‘The Active Acceptance Of Sadness’
The British author writes beautifully of her own recent bout with a personal winter, a period when she felt low and overwhelmed — and aims to help others to embrace their winters.
![Before and after the recent "restoration" of a statue in the northern Spanish city of Palencia. Courtesy of Antonio Guzmán Capel](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/potato-head-of-palencia_custom-69b4a23f1186c35c8093594307661d56723bc058-500x500.jpg)
Behold The ‘Potato Head’ Of Palencia, Another Botched Art Restoration In Spain
The statue was once of a smiling woman in a pastoral scene. Now, it looks more like a melted candle with some gouged holes. Professional art restorers in Spain are calling for stricter oversight.
![Carlos Gil, guest number four on the podcast Traverse Talks with Sueann Ramella.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/104_Carlos_Gil_Thumbnail-500x500.png)
‘Traverse Talks’ Episode 4: Carlos Gil On Mexican-American Assimilation, Identity And Immigration
In this episode of “Traverse Talks with Sueann Ramella,” author and University of Washington professor of Chicano studies Carlos Gil discusses his views of assimilation as a descendant of Mexican immigrants growing up in California
![City Hall tags along as Boston mayor Marty Walsh attends various appointments and public appearances — including this meeting about violent crime. Courtesy of Zipporah Films](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/violent-crime-mtg-mayor_wide-579618ce3c2d823641d2b7801c91cd8cc3e17909-500x500.jpg)
FILM REVIEW: An Action-Packed Doc About Local Government? It’s All In Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, now 90, has a gift for making riveting cinema from the minutiae of the everyday. His latest is a four-and-a-half hour documentary starring Boston City Hall, pre-COVID-19.