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Reviewer Jason Sheehan calls Ben Metcalf's Against the Country meandering, challenging and "almost the definition" of a screed against the idea that virtue is found in rural places. Also, he loved it.

Airs Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

Maybe it was Halloween, or maybe it was the tidal wave of pumpkin spice advertisements. Either way, this month's Recommended Dose electronic music mix turned out darker and more aggressive than usual.

Many of Nepal's historic treasures crumbled in last week's earthquake. But generations of wood and stone carvers have spawned a tradition that all but guarantees that monuments will be revived.

Airs Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Detroit doesn't have to wait for Antiques Roadshow to come to town to know the city owns priceless treasures. The city-owned Detroit Institute of Arts holds works by van Gogh, Matisse, Renoir and other artists that could bring in tens of millions of dollars each.

Airs Thursday, Nov. 24 & Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 from Noon - 5 p.m. on KPBS TV

"Israel is extremely unpopular in the world right now," Silva says, and he doesn't always share his characters' opinions. The English Spy is Silva's 15th novel starring operative Gabriel Allon.

The reopening is expected to be a major attraction for the celebration of Balboa Park's centennial next year.

Iranian officials are lashing out at U.N. report portraying Iranians as suffering from an opaque justice system, regular oppression of women and religious persecution under President Hassan Rouhani.