An AIDS Journalist on the Anatomy of Viruses

World music critic Milo Miles says Paul Simon's earlier album Graceland featured excellent South African sounds, but was politically tone deaf. His new album takes its inspiration from Latin America, and while not as strong as Graceland, still has some poetic beauty.

At 29, Brown decided to become an author, and taught himself fiction writing. He wrote five novels before one was finally published -- his debut, Dirty Work. He has a new collection of short stories, called Big Bad Love.

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg examines the trend of Americans trying to affect a highbrow, British style -- for example, by using the word "shall" instead of "will."