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Filmmaker Mira Nair has just adapted Jhumpa Lahiri's 2003 novel The Namesake to the big screen. Her previous films include Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding and Mississippi Masala.

A failed TV pilot's new life online shows how networks are trying to harness the fringe fiefdoms of Web video. For NBC, the Web is a frontier for new content, and a way to cement the communities around its broadcast shows.

In 2000, author Jhumpa Lahiri won a Pulitzer Prize for her very first book, a collection of stories titled Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri returns to the literary scene with her first novel, The Namesake. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Lahiri about the book, which tells the story of an Indian immigrant family in America.

Obsession is the theme of this movie, about a real-life serial killer in San Francisco during the 1960s and '70s. It's a driving force for the killer, the guys trying to catch him, and for filmmaker David Fincher, who is nothing if not a stickler for detail.

The Titan Arum has become a rockstar in the plant world for its unpredictable displays, and more notoriously, its putrid stench of rotting flesh.

The story of Bizet's 'Carmen'.

Brokeback Mountain, the story of the love between two cowboys, receives Oscar nominations in eight categories, including best picture, best director and best actor. Crash and Good Night, and Good Luck each received six Oscar nods.

Chinese sci-fi author Cixin Liu bridges the gap between East and West in his new novel, a tale of alien first contact influenced by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Chinese history and mythology.

Arkin, who died June 29, got his start creating characters with the comedy troupe Second City and later won an Oscar for his role in Little Miss Sunshine. Originally broadcast Sept. 29, 1989.