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The MacArthur Foundation is probably best known for its "genius grants," $500,000, no-strings-attached awards given every year to exceptionally creative people. Lisa Simeone talks to David Wilson, founder and curator of the wonderfully offbeat and esoteric Museum of Jurassic Technology.

New Yorker editor David Remnick talks about some of his favorite books as Weekend Edition Sunday begins a series of conversations with notable readers. Remnick finds that some authors -- Phillip Roth, for instance -- have grown more compelling as the years pass.

Israeli journalist David Horovitz is the editor of Jerusalem Report, has just released a new book A Little Too Close to God (Knopf). It chronicles the last 20 years he's spent living in Israel. It also examines the ramifications of the country's history on its culture. He was the recipient of the B'nai B'rith International Award for journalism in 1994.

Bianculli reviews Clone High, a new animated series on MTV.

BiancullI reviews the premiere of The Chris Isaak Show on Showtime, a series starring musician Chris Isaak.

In The Moment ... October 4. 2018 Show 436 Hour 1South Dakota Public Broadcasting introduces you to the candidates of the 2018 election.We have invited…

Reporter Jane Mayer's recent article in The New Yorker examines the role of David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and longtime legal adviser. Mayer says current and former Bush administration officials credit him with helping form the administration's legal strategy in the war on terrorism.

David Leeson, senior photographer for the Dallas Morning News, talks about the perplexing question of what not to photograph when reporting on a war. Relatively few images of people who have died in the Iraq war have appeared in American newspapers and magazines. This is the latest installment of NPR's War Diaries series.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on the Camp David peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. President Clinton met with each leader separately yesterday, then brought both delegations together for a half-hour discussion. So far, all parties have agreed to a news blackout concerning the talks, and no official deadline has been set to end the summit.

Actor David Duchovny stars in the new Showtime series Californication, which is basically about a lot of sex. The actor, best known for his role as Agent Fox Mulder on the TV's The X-Files, earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a graduate degree in English Lit at Yale University.