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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new novels set in Cuba: Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban, the debut novel by Lisa Wixon, and Adios Hemingway by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Translated by John King, Adios Hemingway is the latest in Fuentes' award-winning Inspector Mario Conde mysteries.

The manslaughter conviction of 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 killings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman brings relief to many in Philadelphia, Miss. Townspeople say they have lived too long with the stain of the murders.

K rations weren't on the menu at the Army's 30th annual Culinary Arts Competition. At Fort Lee, Va., military chefs waged battles to see who could make the tastiest and healthiest morale-boosting dishes.

Robert Siegel talks with Los Angeles Times reporter John Daniszewski about the revelation of British government memos detailing early plans for invading Iraq.

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee grew up around Philadelphia, but the former teacher and bartender's music sounds more like he came from a background of porch swings and wide-open spaces.

A most unlikely CD has been close to the top of the Billboard charts recently. The Mars Volta, from Texas, somehow missed the news that progressive rock was nearly extinct. Their new CD, Frances the Mute, is a saga based on the diary of a child in search of a birth mother.

The newest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include U2, The Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, and the O'Jays.

A jury in Santa Maria, Calif., acquits pop star Michael Jackson of all charges of child molestation. The jury concluded Monday that the prosecution did not present sufficient evidence to convict the singer. Jackson now has other challenges in front of him, namely, getting his career back on track, so he can settle the hundreds of millions of dollars he owes creditors.

The latest novel from best-selling English author Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down, focuses on a group of suicidal people who accidentally meet atop a tall building — and how that meeting changes their fates. He also writes "Stuff I've Been Reading," a column for The Believer magazine. Many of Hornby's novels have been made into films, including About a Boy, High Fidelity and Fever Pitch.

For the first time in a generation, a new piece of music by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered. The young composer wrote the aria in 1713 while working in Germany. NPR has a portion of the forgotten aria — and its amazing story.