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On Wednesday, the president showcased models for a grand new monument to be added to the gateway of the National Mall: a large, neoclassical arch topped with eagles and a gilded, winged figure.

The Palestinian delegation to the United Nations has dropped its bid to secure a top U.N. job after the U.S. threatens to revoke their visas.

Academia is a very special kind of hell, and Kuang clearly understands it. In her innovative new novel, a magical professor dies in a lab accident and two students descend into hell to find him.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl about his latest piece, "The Art of Dying." Schjeldahl has lung cancer.

George Washington University Professor Orin Kerr is helping to rewrite part of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. He is trying to balance the privacy concerns of Internet service users with the terrorism concerns of law enforcement.

The lives of writers drive two films opening this week: The Rum Diary, starring Johnny Depp, dramatizes a Hunter S. Thompson novel. Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, meanwhile, examines who wrote Shakespeare's plays. Critic David Edelstein says both films show how hard it is to write about writers.

A sixth of American women are victims of rape or attempted rape. Victims still face blame and disbelief, and few rapists are punished. Rosem Morton tells her own experience, in photos and a letter.

Part two of Jon M. Chu's splashy musical doesn't justify its own full-length movie, but it's clearly been made with love — and a deep commitment to the spirit of the material.

Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.

Smith's musical career sometimes threatens to overshadow her accomplishments in other creative fields, but every page in this book reminds us that she is an accomplished novelist, essayist and poet.