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Adam Driver is a bus driver named Paterson in Paterson, a film set in Paterson, New Jersey, in which William Carlos Williams' epic poem "Paterson" figures largely. Keep up.

Callie Evans and Audri Williams rap about online learning and the COVID-19 pandemic from the empty halls of Monroe Comprehensive High School, backed up by mask-wearing, move-busting cheerleaders.

In The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams fixes a gaze of cold but evocative detachment on the lives of an eclectic cast of characters living in the arid Southwest. Writer Sarah Braunstein says the surreal novel uses wit, candor and virtuosic prose to delve into "our subterranean selves."

Defensive end Mario Williams of N.C. State is the first pick. Then what? Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ron Rapoport tells Scott Simon why he thinks the NFL draft captures the imaginations of so many Americans.

The latest rankings from the Women's Tennis Association are out. Two American women sit at the top of the top four rankings for the first time since Serena and Venus Williams did back in 2010.

In an encyclical, Pope Leo says AI poses a threat to human dignity.

People in the small town of Plains — the birthplace of President Jimmy Carter — remember former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at age 96.

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home orders, remote education and virtual programs have seen a massive uptick in recent months. That includes virtual music lessons from organizations like Charlotte's Bold Music Lessons, which brings music to homes and creates teaching jobs for musicians who’ve lost work as a result of the pandemic.

Taxes get a bad reputation, but they were central to the formation of representative government, says financial historian William N. Goetzmann.

2: Novelist MICHAEL TOLKIN. He wrote the novel, "The Player," a satirical look at Hollywood which was made into a Robert Altman film. TOKIN also wrote and directed the film, "The Rapture." His newest work is a novel, "Among the Dead," (William Morrow & Co.).

Danny speaks with Dr Philip Williams, a hydrologist in San Francisco, about the dangers of building on the flood plain. He says that Californians who were flooded out this past week should take heed of the lessons learned by residents along the Mississippi river in 1993.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH CARL LEUBSDORF (LUBES-dorf), WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND WILLIAM NEIKIRK (MIGH-kirk), WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ABOUT THE TWO PRESIDENT CLINTONS: THE GREAT CONCILIATOR AND THE VETO PEN-BRANDISHER.

Megan Williams of Youth Radio reports that while more and more young people are volunteering and taking part in public service -- many do not see voting as the best way to express their beliefs or influence others. The same kids out on the street making the voices heard, will not necessarily show up in the voting booth.

Host Madeleine Brand talks to NPR's Rob Gifford about today's meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and China's President, Jiang Zemin. The issues they will be discussing include Taiwan, U.S. plans for a missile defense system, and arms proliferation.

William Wilcoxen of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the expected guilty plea today of Jan Ganglehoff, a former office manager for the University of Minnesota's men's basketball team. As part of an expected plea bargain, Ganglehoff will testify against former coach Clem Haskins, who she says knew about the cheating.

As the U.S. Open tennis championship moves into crucial late rounds, all eyes are on stars like Pete Sampras, Venus and Serena Williams and Martina Hingis. Reena Advani reports there are also other performers out there on center court -- the ballboys. Unlike tennis players, when ballboys do their job well, they go virtually unnoticed.

Pres. Bill Clinton threatened to punch the nose of New York imes columnist William Safire, who last week called Hillary Clinton a congenital liar" over her statements regarding the Whitewater land deal. NPR enior News Analyst Dan Schorr brings a historical perspective to the matter

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH TWO FORMER SPIES AND ADVERSARIES: FORMER CIA DIRECTOR WILLIAM COLBY AND FORMER MAJOR GENERAL OF THE KGB OLEG KALUGIN (KUH-'LOOG-IN). THEY'RE CONSULTANTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW COMPUTER VIDEO GAME CALLED "SPYCRAFT: THE GREAT GAME" (ACTIVISION, INC.).

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with E.J. Dionne, columnist at the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and William Maynes, Editor of Foreign Policy Journal at the Carnegie Endowment about what President Clinton's second term might hold for him..

a member of Armed Services Committee, about the possible deployment of U.S. troops to Bosnia. The Senator, and the rest of his committee, was briefed yesterday by Defense Secretary William Perry.