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Singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia talks about her cult-classic album, Dogs. The CD is being re-issued Tuesday on Touch & Go Records. Dogs sold well when it was first released five years ago, but quickly went out of print. Hear two full-length cuts from the CD.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with listener Geri Meldon of Deerfield, Florida, and puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with winner Nancy Tolisano and puzzlemaster Will Shortz

Slate magazine editor Jacob Weisberg has a few things to say about the presidency of George W. Bush. He's assembled his thoughts in a book called The Bush Tragedy, which Time magazine political columnist Joe Klein calls a "scorching, powerful and entirely plausible account" of an administration whose "epic collapse" Klein has lately been writing about.

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, a new film about a young woman's illegal abortion in Ceausescu's Romania, won the top prize at Cannes and has just opened in the U.S. It's a fierce and unsentimental film; Terry Gross talks to Mungiu about growing up in a totalitarian state, and why he wanted to make the movie.

Singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson leaves his folk-rock roots and goes country on the self-produced album Up Front and Down Low, his first full-length disc since Separate Ways. It's largely a collection of classic tunes and lesser-known gems from country greats.

Michael Jordan wore the pair of Nike Air Ships during his first season with the Chicago Bulls. The shoes were sold to collector Nick Fiorella.

NPR's Leila Fadel plays the puzzle with puzzle master Will Shortz and this week's winner Steve Vittori from Gig Harbor, WA.

A new book compiles U.S. memos and reports on the interrogation and treatment of detainees in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib was edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel.

Writer Samuel G. Freedman's new book is Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life. Freedman's mother died many years ago, when he was just 18, and as he approached his mother's age when she died, he decided to find out all about her life. The result is a narrative fueled by facts.