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Michele Norris talks with Natasha Richardson, lead actress in the new film Asylum, which was adapted from the book by Patrick McGrath. Richardson plays Stella, the wife of an accomplished psychiatrist. She falls obsessively in love with a patient at her husband's institution. Richardson and Norris discuss the psychology of the attraction as seen in the film as well as the background behind the film, including the role Richardson's real-life husband, Liam Neeson, played in its development.

Dr. Richard Collins grew up in a small upstate New York town, where his father practiced medicine. But as Collins told his grandson Sean -- a medical student himself -- that didn't keep him from orchestrating pranks when he was a student.

Students visiting America from across the Arabic-speaking world share their perspectives on the misunderstandings between their home nations and the United States.

Attackers, reportedly dressed in Iraqi uniforms, kill a well-known Sunni Muslim tribal leader and several of his relatives. The Shiite-controlled government says its forces weren't involved in the deaths, which prompted an angry protest at a Sunni mosque.

A new book uncovers the research of John Work, who accompanied folklorist Alan Lomax on a trip to the Mississippi Delta in the early 1940s. They documented the music heard in churches, blues joints and cotton fields of the South.

The Bayou Classic, the traditional Thanksgiving football rivalry between historically black universities Grambling State and Southern University, will be played in Houston this year, instead of its usual site, New Orleans. It's just one of events forced to seek a new home because of Hurricane Katrina. Karen Henderson of member station WRKF in Baton Rouge reports.

Two years ago, singing herdsmen from Mongolia traveled to Nevada for a musical exchange with a group of singing cowboys. In September, the herdsmen hosted their American counterparts on the Mongolian steppe.

Hear the Washington National Opera perform George Gershwin's legendary musical in its entirety. The full performance originally webcast live on NPR.org from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Amos Oz's latest is A Tale Of Love And Darkness, a memoir of growing up in Jerusalem in the turbulent 1940s and '50s, when a war-torn Israel was achieving statehood. Oz's home life was as intense as the world outside. The book follows Oz through his mother's suicide to a growing interest in politics and writing.

Video game sales have recently eclipsed those of the motion picture industry, bringing in an estimated $10 billion last year. Tech guru Omar Wasow of BlackPlanet.com joins NPR's Tavis Smiley to discuss the latest salvo of video games hitting the shelves, and just how far this growing industry has come.