She recounts her experience of growing up black and poor in rural Mississippi in Reagan’s 1980s and the early 21st century, ...

This literary pilgrimage through Oxford, Jackson, and Natchez reveals the homes, bookstores, and landscapes that shaped generations of American authors.

+ Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by the Anderson Family Endowment, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Candace King Weir, the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...

Writer Jesmyn Ward calls her maternal grandmother, Dorothy, the "first storyteller of my life." Dorothy was a twin, but her sister was stillborn. Her mother, Ward's great-grandmother, was so ...