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French authorities are calling for tougher penalties on people who damage works of art after someone put a fist through Monet's "The Argenteuil Bridge."

The antiviral infusion was just revived as an early treatment for COVID patients. But the drug is relatively expensive and hard to administer, relegating it to what some are calling "stopgap" status.

September 11, AIDS, the Holocaust — the comic and actress Sarah Silverman has repeatedly proved that practically nothing need be off limits in a joke. Take the title of her Off-Broadway show, which later became a film: Jesus Is Magic.

Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat's memoir Brother, I'm Dying details the complicated emotions surrounding the deaths of her father and uncle — and the birth of her daughter — all in the same year.

Author Philip Roth says his latest novel, Exit Ghost, is also his last one about Nathan Zuckerman. The character was 23 when Roth began writing about him. Now 71, the character is grappling with old age and thoughts of dying.

Jon Krakauer's chronicle of Christopher McCandless' fateful journey into the American wilderness gets filmed by Sean Penn; as McCandless becomes increasingly frail, the cinematography becomes increasingly grand, and the two mesh wrenchingly.

The town of Dix Hills, Long Island is trying to convert John Coltrane's home into a museum. The late jazz legend spent his last years at the house. Farai Chideya talks with Dix Hills resident Steve Fulgoni, who is in charge of the effort.

Weekend Edition's classics commentator Elaine Fantham talk with host Scott Simon about what to do when your emperor wants to be a rock star. Roman Emperor Nero was this kind of ruler, and he took his music making very seriously.

Rapper/actress Queen Latifah says she doesn't care if people think she's gay. Plus, Russell Simmons tells us why so many people are plugged in to what celebrities say about voting. Newsweek national correspondent Allison Samuels explains.

By moving from showing Akira Kurosawa films to The Real Housewives of Orange County, Bravo generously expanded its definition of arts programming and positioned itself to compete with the major networks. That model is being emulated by others.