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The Darjeeling Limited, director Wes Anderson's newest film, opened the New York Film Festival this weekend. Jason Schwartzman, who co-wrote the screenplay and plays Jack Whitman, talks about the role India plays in the movie.

On the second anniversary of the playwright's death, Michele Norris talks to two actors from the Broadway production of his final play, Radio Golf.

The antiviral infusion was just revived as an early treatment for COVID patients. But the drug is relatively expensive and hard to administer, relegating it to what some are calling "stopgap" status.

The multi-dimensional writer and filmmaker Sherman Alexie offers a novel for young adults. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian follows a 14-year-old from a reservation in the Northwest.

Author Philip Roth says his latest novel, Exit Ghost, is also his last one about Nathan Zuckerman. The character was 23 when Roth began writing about him. Now 71, the character is grappling with old age and thoughts of dying.

Massive, scientifically accurate "dinosaurs" have begun stomping around U.S. sports arenas, thanks to the wizardry of 21st century puppetry techniques and robotics. The $20 million theatrical spectacle Walking With Dinosaurs, based on a BBC television series, travels to New York from Washington this weekend.

Though fierce political opponents, John McCain and Barack Obama agree on a literary matter: Each picks Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, featuring the stoic freedom-fighter Robert Jordan, as a favorite.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company will present Ocean in Minnesota's Rainbow Granite Quarry Thursday and Friday. It calls for 150 musicians to sit around the audience and has been performed only once before in its entirety.

Weekend Edition's classics commentator Elaine Fantham talk with host Scott Simon about what to do when your emperor wants to be a rock star. Roman Emperor Nero was this kind of ruler, and he took his music making very seriously.

Eight tattooed pigs were supposed to be part of Wim Delvoye's exhibit at a Chinese art show. But authorities didn't consider them art, so Delvoye tattooed an elaborate scene on a man's back and displayed him instead. A collector has purchased the tattoo — with the right to remove it after the man dies.