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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.

Composer Edgar Meyer's self-titled CD takes advantage of his many talents. Jacki Lyden visits Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, where Meyer also finds time to teach, for a conversation with a musical master.

The USA Network recently announced a seven-part television series following competitions on the Major League Gaming tour. The tour follows top-tier video gamers who travel from city to city competing in tournaments. Madeleine Brand speaks to Major League Gaming's co-founder, Sundance DiGiovanni, about bringing the tour to television.

With a versatile mixture of catchy melodies, lush harmonies and lazy organs and horns, The Long Winters' members craft clever, shimmering pop. Few of the group's songs stray from topics revolving around love gone wrong, but singer-songwriter John Roderick rarely takes the expected road.

Claire Messud discusses her new novel, The Emperor's Children, set in New York City in 2001. Though her characters share in the Sept. 11 tragedy, the attack is not the focus of the book. Messud explains why.

This summer, at the Culture Project in New York City, five South African actors are telling their "true life" stories about growing up under apartheid. The piece is called Amajuba : Like Doves We Rise.