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Bernard Cribbins, a beloved British entertainer whose seven-decade career ranged from the bawdy "Carry On" comedies to children's television and "Doctor Who," has died.

This week, we celebrate the end of summer with some of our best friends, including Nathan Lane, Sterling K. Brown, Vanessa Bayer, and Brain Tyree Henry.

A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning-poet Tracy K. Smith. She spent a year traveling the country as U.S. poet laureate. Where did she go?

There is no controversy surrounding Koko Taylor's title "Queen of the Blues" — she was simply the best. Taylor's 40-year career lasted until only a few weeks before her death. In this World Cafe interview from 1994, Taylor talks about how she got started as a musician, as well as about her love for and commitment to the blues.

In The Ink Black Heart, a popular cartoonist is harassed and killed after her work is criticized as transphobic. Observers say the plot mirrors Rowling's experience, though she calls it a coincidence.

A pocket on the 1880s-era pair of jeans says, "The only kind made by white labor."

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a relatively new literary award given to women and nonbinary authors. This year's winner is V.V. Ganeshananthan for her book Brotherless Night.

N.K. Jemisin's new novel kicks off a trilogy of stories about a world in which great cities can be born into human avatars, who must battle eldritch horrors to defend themselves and their people.

Widely regarded as one of the best guitarists of all time, blues legend B.B. King is still recording at age 82. Music critic Milo Miles reviews King's newest album, One Kind Favor.

For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change.