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Joseph Horowitz, author of Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall, talks with Robert Siegel about the past, present and future of classical music in this country.

The new CD by rapper Common, called Be, could be the best hip-hop release of the year, Will Hermes says. It's produced by grammy award-winning artist Kanye West, a longtime rap friend of Common, and a fellow Chicagoan.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is on many bestseller and book club lists, and Haddon won the U.K.'s prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize.

The alleged mistreatment of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay sets off a heated Senate debate. Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, compared a description of mistreatment -- submitted to a Pentagon investigator by an F-B-I agent -- to actions carried out by Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Some Republicans accused Durbin of maligning American military personnel.

Chicago Tribune national correspondent Dahleen Glanton talks about the trial of 80-year old Edgar Ray Killen, charged in the deaths of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi more than 40 years ago.

Why are we compelled to read about celebrities such as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? Commentator Jake Halpern says it's for the same reasons that the ancient Greeks loved myths about the gods on Olympus.

Virginia Gov. Mark Warner says Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor, is putting states in financial peril, especially as Congress eyes $10 billion in federal cuts. The Democrat is chairman of the National Governors' Association, which has developed its own plan for Medicaid reform.

In the fifth part of our Vietnam series, Michael Sullivan travels to Quang Ngai province, where the massacre of My Lai occurred in 1968. Now, 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, it seems old wounds are slow to heal.

David Bianculli, usually Fresh Air's small-screen critic, takes a look at the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Host Ed Gordon speaks with Senate candidate and former head of the NAACP, Kweizi Mfume, about allegations of inappropriate favoritism leveled against Mfume for actions during his tenure with the NAACP.