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Pérez died on Friday at age 67. In a career that spanned over four decades, Pérez's meticulous pencil was behind some of the biggest comic book heroes.

The Greek myth of the fate of Eurydice, who dies after being saved from Hades by Orpheus, provides the kernel of one of Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel's favorite scenes. Vogel discusses Sarah Ruhl's vision of Eurydice with NPR's Susan Stamberg.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns returns to PBS with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a profile of the world's first African-American heavyweight boxing champ.

NPR's Neda Ulaby reviews the DVD re-release of the low-budget Stephen Frears masterpiece My Beautiful Laundrette, which made a star out of Daniel Day-Lewis. The film has lasting power, but unfortunately the DVD has few extras for serious cinemaphiles.

Playwright Edward Albee tells NPR's Susan Stamberg that Irish playwright Samuel Beckett created two scenes that make Albee a bit jealous: one in Happy Days and another in Krapp's Last Tape.

NPR's Noah Adams talks with Luis Sinco, a photographer for the Los Angeles Times. He has just returned from Fallujah, where he was attached to a Marine unit that saw some of the most fierce fighting of the Iraq war.

Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan looks at what the critics are saying about this week's major movie releases, including Sin City, Beauty Shop, and Look at Me.

Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life In Poetry is a free weekly column providing a brief poem and description as a way to bring verse to the masses. Monday, Kooser won a Pulitzer Prize.

Alan Cheuse reviews British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday, about 24 hours in the life of a London neurosurgeon, against the backdrop of the impending war in Iraq.

Commentator Gwen Macsai attends a performance of The Rejection Show, a monthly New York City cabaret for artists, writers and comics who present material shunned by editors and producers.