Arts and Culture

Poetry is everywhere you look. You can literally stumble across it embedded in the sidewalks of St. Paul.

Best-selling mystery author P.D. James died Thursday. She was 94. In 1987, James told Terry Gross that while the "shock of finding the bodies is important" in her novels, she personally doesn't like "messy lives."

Our guests tell us their favorite reads of the year and we take your picks.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis will be performing tonight at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. They will be joined by guest vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant.

Amel Al Sammarraie and Mohammed Al Azzawi were targeted by militias in Iraq for cooperating with the United States. They were able to get U.S. visas, but their grown children were not.

This time, a wistful remembrance of Bob Vila and childhood home improvement projects.

Author Austen Ivereigh argues in a new biography, The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope, that many misjudge the meaning of the pope's comments on abortion, homosexuality and nonbelievers.

John Byrne Cooke was Janis Joplin's road manager from 1967 until her untimely death in 1970. So he saw a lot of rock history up close -- and describes some of the details in a new memoir.

What works about nonprofits, and what doesn't?

Travel writer Doug Lansky has a new book, "Travel: The Guide," mean to challenge readers to rethink their experiences when they leave home.