Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis....
Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading
NEW YORK (AP) -- Khaled Hosseini, whose novels have sold more than 38 million copies worldwide, knows what a lucky man he is....
Ai Weiwei uses music to mock state power in China
BEIJING (AP) -- Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers - and even sits on the toilet - in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power....
