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Neal Pollack's book The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is out in paperback. The author calls it "a heady mix of aesthetic loathing and professional jealousy." It's also a wickedly funny satire of the outsized egos of American journalism. He talks with Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

By some estimates, more than half the languages spoken in the world today will be gone by the end of the century. For Morning Edition, NPR's Joe Palca reports on one attempt in Alaska to slow the extinction process.

Documentarian Julian Crandall-Hollick opens his series on the pavement dwellers of Mumbai with Ragpicking on Malabar Hill. He tags along with a group of young boys who spend their days prowling streets and alleys looking for castoffs they can sell. The four-part series continues through June on Weekend Edition Sunday.

A lot of people are talking these days about how religiously diverse the United States is becoming. Commentator Gustav Niebhur says the U.S. has always been religiously diverse.

At the height of the Great Depression, a government economist named Roy Stryker sent some of America's best photographers to document farm life. The result is one of the greatest collections of photographs ever -- and the book Children of the Depression highlights the most memorable images.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is featuring a broad survey of art made by artists who called themselves surrealists -- and by many who didn't. David D'Arcy reports that the art movement itself defied rigid definitions, but curators keep trying.

An estimated 20,000 children live on the streets of Romania. Some of them live underground in the subways of the capital, Bucharest. In the second part of our series of interviews with documentary filmmakers nominated for an Academy Award this year, Korva Coleman speaks with Edet Belzberg about her movie, Children Underground. The film, which follows five homeless Romanian children, airs on Cinemax in July. (8:30)

During the Great Depression, the U.S. government began an unprecedented effort to record the sights and sounds of American folk life. Producer Barrett Golding uncovered a wealth of music and interviews from Florida in the 1930s, reflecting the culture of the Jim Crow South.

Intrepid Gardening Correspondent, NPR's Ketzel Levine concludes her Armchair Gardener series with stories of waterbed heaters and tomatoes, plastic wrap and forsythia. Listeners tell the lengths they'll go to protect their greenery from winter's chill.

When Enron said it was seeking a new name, listeners of NPR's All Things Considered came to the rescue. The show asked listeners for suggestions and today announced the most popular: "End-Run." Read some of the other suggested names, and submit your own to NPR's online discussion board. (3:00)