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Actress Jane Fonda is back on stage as a musicologist out to solve a musical mystery in the play 33 Variations. Fonda talks about the role and explains why she's "smitten" with Beethoven.

There's only one more day to submit entries for our Three-Minute Fiction contest. The deadline is Sunday, Jan. 23, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Host Guy Raz delivers a few of the jokes in stories received so far.

In the U.S., school closures during the pandemic have some worried about a "lost COVID generation" of children. But that's not the case in Germany.

Oprah Winfrey is on her way to Australia, and while her Aussie fans are excited that the Queen of Talk is coming to town, others wonder whether it's time and attention well spent.

When he was an undergrad, the director of "Rushmore" and "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," published a short story in a University of Texas literary magazine. Its newest editor has made it available online. Is that a good thing?

Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown chats with Steve Inskeep about the best things she has been reading lately. This time, her recommendations focus on women and power, both those with it and those without it.

New York Fashion Week gives us a glimpse of what will be fashionable next fall. And with the event comes the discussion of the models' sizes. Size zeros are still common, but lately some fashion spreads have prominently featured plus-size models.

Ada Calhoun, author of Instinctive Parenting, makes the case that children will turn out fine if parents simply trust their gut. But Po Bronson, co-author of NurtureShock, begs to differ — he says instincts may tell parents when something needs to be done, but not how to do it. He maintains experts are still relevant for that.

The Klencke Atlas is the world's largest book and it's soon to go on public display for the first time in 350 years. Host Liane Hansen speaks with the curator of Antiquarian Mapping at the British Library in London, Tom Harper, about the atlas and the Library's upcoming map exhibit.

"There is a history in all men's lives," William Shakespeare wrote, and there are few better places to find out about his life and legacy than the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Host Scott Simon visits the library with Weekend Edition's literary detective, Paul Collins, for a look into the vaults that hold early Shakespeare folios.