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Slate media critic Seth Stevenson comments on Citibank's new television ad campaign, touting the company's new rewards program aimed at making customers feel as though they're being treated well by the company.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: vintage reads, Elden Ring and something to scratch the Schitt's Creek itch.

NPR's Tavis Smiley checks in with tech guru Omar Wasow of Blackplanet.com about how personal computers are becoming the latest exercise machine.

NPR's Fred Child takes the stage with the young Jupiter Quartet: violinists Meg Freivogel and Nelson Lee, Liz Freivogel (Meg's sister) on viola and Daniel McDonough on cello. They discuss and perform music by Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn.

Dowd's new book collects more than 100 of her columns from the New York Times. Bushworld begins with George H.W. Bush and continues with the presidency of George W. Bush. Dowd won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her commentary on the Clinton impeachment.

On Sunday, 13,000 Republicans attended Broadway musicals as guests of The New York Times. But the GOP viewing list eschewed many of Broadway's biggest hits, which touch on edgy cultural issues -- gay characters, the Vietnam War, unwed mothers. Jeff Lunden reports.

In his new book, You Call it Madness, musician and writer Lenny Kaye brings back the forgotten voice of Russ Columbo, one of the great crooners of the 1930s.

Harry Stephen Keeler wrote stupefyingly bad mystery novels in the first half of the 20th century. Now he's something of a literary cult figure. Hear "Keeler-head" Paul Collins and NPR's Scott Simon.

Thomas Alva Edison founded recorded sound. He invented the repeating telegraph and the phonograph, among others. He was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," his hometown in New Jersey.

Writer Calvin Trillin, whose latest book is Obliviously On He Sailed: The Bush Administration in Rhyme, will provide a running commentary on this week's Democratic Convention, in verse. Each day he will supply us with a poem. Monday's is titled, "A Delegate Responds to the Policy of Keeping the Democratic Convention Positive."