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After nearly 100 years, a collection of antiquities from the Inca site of Machu Picchu is going home. The artifacts have been at the center of a long and bitter custody battle between the government of Peru and Yale University.

In a new biography, the author of Sin in the Second City peels back the veil of glamor surrounding the most famous stripper since Salome — Gypsy Rose Lee.

The Daily Beast editor joins Steve Inskeep to chat about the best things she's been reading lately. This month, the selections focus on three contemporary American icons and the ways in which they are presented and understood.

This year's Cannes Film Festival is being called the year of the director. The film festival on the French Riviera opened Wednesday. Xan Brooks, film correspondent for the Guardian newspaper, offers his insight.

Elsie Washington, who died last month, is hailed as the Barack Obama of romance writers. Colleagues say she showed that publishing novels with worldly black characters was possible. She established a precedent that influenced the genre over the past 20 years.

Is Stuart Davis is a musician who makes jokes — or a comedian who makes music? Or, is he a religious man who also appreciates the life of the flesh, and rock and roll? He says his three favorite things in life are sex, God, and rock and roll — so his new show is about just that. Host Scott Simon talks to Stuart Davis, who writes, directs, and stars in the show.

After creating the HBO series Six Feet Under, about a family who runs a funeral home, writer Alan Ball moved on to the undead in his latest series, True Blood.

The film Kodachrome is known for its unique color and long-lasting durability — and for an iconic mention in a Paul Simon song. Today, Kodak announced that it will no longer manufacture the film.

The legendary woodworker is known for his minimalist, handmade furniture. The son of immigrants from Lebanon, he has won a MacArthur "genius grant," and his work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Alzheimer's Project, a four-part documentary series airing on HBO, examines the medical and scientific aspects of the disease, as well as its impact on families. The second episode was inspired by Maria Shriver's book Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?.