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The sporting event is coming to the U.S. for the first time in 2031.

Internationally renowned playwright August Wilson died Sunday at the age of 60 after a battle with liver cancer. Wilson achieved success with his plays Piano Lessons, Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Novelist Louise Erdrich returns to the Ojibwe world in her latest work, but The Painted Drum also explores human relationships. The central character steals the title object in order to give it back to its rightful owners.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' emails from the past week. They comment on a story out of Iraq about a Muslim man who buries the unclaimed dead, Melissa Block's quest for the elusive Wok Hay, and the reporter in the White House pressroom affectionately referred to as the Goyal Foil. We also share a brief message from sound designer Randy Thom about the progress of our Search for Sound project.

David Cronenberg's films consistently confound viewer expectations. Naked Lunch, The Fly and Crash subverted the line between reality and fantasy. Now comes A History of Violence.

One of the surprise critical hits of the summer is a new Paul Anka album. The teen-idol turned Vegas lounge singer puts a crooner's spin on rock classics, covering Nirvana and Van Halen, among others.

Wall Street Journal movie critic Joe Morgenstern tells Scott Simon about the movie Wedding Crashers, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson opening this weekend.

Journalist Karl Fleming's new book is Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir. As a civil rights reporter for Newsweek in the 1960s, he wrote about major events such as the Birmingham church bombing, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss. While at the 1966 riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Fleming was severely beaten.

Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded American forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, died Monday night in Charleston, S.C. He was 91. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stanley Karnow talks about Westmoreland and his insistence that the United States "did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam."

Fans can finally get to reading the latest installment of the Harry Potter series this weekend, and blind readers will be able to join in soon. The National Braille Press, a nonprofit printer and publisher, will publish Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in braille.