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In this week's New Yorker, the journalist details how the electoral climate since the Citizens United ruling in 2010 has negatively affected the Obama campaign's appeal to Democratic donors. Mayer tells Fresh Air that Obama has to make a "terrible choice between his principles and politics."

Frank Langella's sensitive portrayal of a geriatric career thief carries first-time director Jake Schreier's science-fiction story, which features a caretaker robot who becomes Frank's accomplice. Critic Ian Buckwalter says the film's serious themes dovetail well with its lighter antics.

In Little White Lies, Guillaume Canet's follow-up to his arthouse thriller Tell No One, a group of romantically beleaguered friends takes its annual retreat together. Unsubtly indebted to The Big Chill, the movie leans heavily on cliche and nostalgia.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman says everything we think, do and believe is determined by complex neural networks battling it out in our brains. His book Incognito, in which he explains what scientists are learning about this hidden world of cognition, is now out in paperback.

Brazilian culture is often portrayed as either joyful folk tradition or brutal gang violence. But Kleber Mendonca Filho's Neighboring Sounds penetrates into the daily lives of suburban Brazilians — and critic John Powers says it may be the best Brazilian film since the '70s.

Phillippa Gregory's The Kingmaker's Daughter, about 15th century power struggles, debuts at No. 12.

On Thursday's Project Runway, one designer managed to get so wrapped up in disliking his model's body that he forgot to make her anything attractive to wear.

Finding a good-sized, inexpensive barrel, previously used to age bourbon, is not so easy, as a hot sauce maker on the hunt found out. But they can be found, and when they are, these barrels experience a remarkable afterlife.

Writer/producer Alan Ball is leaving True Blood, the highly successful HBO show he created, at the end of its fifth season. He talks about the show, his childhood and coming out to his mother.

Every answer is a two-word phrase in which one of the words starts with W, and the other word is the same with the W removed. For example, given the clue "desires scurrying insects," the answer would be "wants ants."