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On a self-titled CD, Edgar Meyer plays all the instruments, overdubbing parts in his home studio. During a visit to Studio 4A, he offered a sampler on bass, banjo and gamba. And a sample the final result: "Please Don't Feed the Bear," from the CD Edgar Meyer.

Hollywood does not regard summer as a time for costume epics, unless the costumes are made of spandex. Historical movies tend to be released in the fall. But The Illusionist, a romantic drama set in the early 1900s, is bucking that tradition.

William Gottlieb died of a stroke last Sunday at the age of 89. In the '40s, Gottlieb learned photography and took hundreds of shots of the jazz greats of the time. Many of those shots are now well known through album covers, books, and posters. 200 of those photos appear in Gottlieb's book, The Golden Age of Jazz.

When poet Jack Gilbert was young, he used to make lists of everything he wanted from his life.

Actress Rosie Perez steps behind the camera for a documentary on Puerto Rico's people, politics, and culture. Perez, actor Jimmy Smits, and co-director Liz Garbus discuss Yo Soy Boricua, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I Am a Boricua, Just So You Know It.)

In the summer of 1967, photographer Al Clayton traveled through the Mississippi Delta, eastern Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama, and documented the lives of America's poor and hungry. His work was collected in the book Still Hungry in America.

British writer Christopher Hitchens was once the literary lion of the left. But after Sept. 11, 2001, he surprised many with his robust support for the Bush administration's war on terrorism. It has cost Hitchens friends and allies, and left others wondering how it happened.

Keane's new Under the Iron Sea opens with a song called "Atlantic," a promising burst that all but announces, "We are now wriggling out of the imposing shadow of Coldplay."

Alan Furst has a new historical spy novel called The Foreign Correspondent. His first one, Night Soldiers, came out in 1988, and he's written eight more since then. Critic at large John Powers, who says he always snaps up a new one, explains Furst's appeal.

To celebrate the longest day of the year, Scott Carrier and some friends visited an obscure art installation in the middle of the Utah desert where concrete tunnels are aligned to channel the sun's rays at precise celestial moments.