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Tracey Ullman is a singer, impressionist, dancer, comedienne and actress. And now she can add another title to her extensive repertoire: knitting guru. Ullman has just co-authored a book about everything yarn-related.

Commentator Clancy Sigal was a sergeant in the American army of occupation in Germany, the only Jew in his unit. He remembers vividly his visit to the Nuremberg Trials.

In February 2002, journalist Peter Heller accompanied seven extreme kayakers on an attempt to paddle down the Tsangpo river gorge in Tibet. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the experience and his book, Hell or High Water.

He wrote music for The Sting, A Chorus Line and The Way We Were, and won a Tony, Oscars, Grammys and Emmys.

In Connecticut, the birth of what's thought to be a rare white bison is drawing Native Americans to a sacred ceremony. But in Texas, no one has yet been arrested in the May killing of another such animal and there's anger over the pace of the investigation.

The belle epoque was not particularly belle if you were poor and female — like the young girl who modeled for Edgar Degas' famous sculpture, The Little Dancer, Aged 14. A new novel by Cathy Marie Buchanan tells the story of that girl, ballet student Marie van Goethem.

Apparently, there's no shortage of people who make misguided choices for wedding processions, father-daughter dances, cake-cuttings and everything in between. Hear five of the worst choices for wedding music, as chosen by you.

In ruined residential dwellings of the liberated Ukrainian cities of Irpin and Borodianka, humanity's hopes and dreams — in war, merely "collateral damage" — are reduced to ash.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN about major figures in Cuban sports and the potential expiration of Major League Baseball's collective bargaining agreement.

Despite losing its lead singer last year, the inventive New York band sounds no less frenzied and intricate on its second album, Gloss Drop.