Acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about thinking, writing, and living well.

Award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning of love from the life and thought of James Baldwin.

Legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins shares the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to her current-day view of his enduring artistic...

Critic, novelist, and memoirist William Giraldi shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the everyday anguish of America’s common strivers by reading one of our most revolutionary storytellers.

Writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton shares the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs work, and...

Acclaimed songwriter, producer, and arranger John Lissauer shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the inspiration, writing, and recording of some of Leonard Cohen’s most unforgettable songs.

Acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the pleasures of classical music.

Author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons shares the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from him five years after he passed away.

Multi-award-winning photojournalist Nicole Tung shares the Five Things She’s Learned about photos’ unique power to inform, to connect, and to document people’s lives.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland — alongside her special guest Penelope Tree—, shares the Five Things She’s Learned about documenting and sharing the lives of some of the...

Photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts shares the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the people and communities of the African diaspora.

Film critic, author, and teacher Alissa Wilkinson shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how we develop our personal mythologies by studying and writing about Joan Didion.