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Weekend Edition Sunday talks with several notables from various professions about their reading habits, their favorite books, and what they are reading this summer. This week: Judge Richard Posner, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jewel has been performing before live audiences since she was a little girl growing up in Alaska. So it's no surprise the singer/songwriter is more comfortable on stage than in the recording studio. On Morning Edition, Host Bob Edwards' interviews Jewel.

Asian longhorned beetles are eating their way through hardwood trees in New York and Chicago, and experts worry the pests are spreading. A new tool, using acoustic clues, may make it easier for inspectors to detect the beetles. NPR's Melissa Block reports for Morning Edition.

Lee Child's Without Fail, Walter Mosley's Bad Boy Brawly Brown, and John Sandford's Mortal Prey -- NPR's Linda Wertheimer has put these "bad-boy mysteries" on her summer reading list, and interviewed their authors. On Morning Edition, Wertheimer sizes up the fictional tough guy who can be "romantic, even vulnerable, in between cracking heads."

Forty years after Andy Warhol's first exhibition, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is hosting a retrospective of the artist's work. The exhibition boasts 200 works spanning Warhol's career, including examples of his most famous series like Campbell's Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. Eric Roy of member station KCRW reports for Morning Edition.

From almost the beginning of the broadcast era, audiences have had a taste for seeing -- and before that, hearing -- themselves on the air. On Present at the Creation, Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, explores the origins of the quiz show.

India has lost one of its most important birds, and no one knows why. Since the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of healthy-looking vultures have literally dropped dead there. Scientists say they've never seen anything like it. NPR's John Nielsen reports for All Things Considered.

Five years ago, a plucky little spacecraft called Pathfinder parachuted into Mars and sent back rock composition data and stunning images of the Martian surface. On the five-year anniversary of the mission, Joe Palca reports for All Things Considered that planning for the next mission in 2003 is already underway.

Summertime, and the reading is easy. So is finding the right book, thanks to recommendations from NPR critic Alan Cheuse, notable readers consulted by Weekend Edition Sunday, KBAQ host Randy Kinkel, and public radio listeners. The latest edition: picks from poet Li-Young Lee.

Writer/director Nicole Holofcener. Her new film Lovely and Amazing is a comedy about the insecurities that many women have about their appearance. It stars Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn and Dermot Mulroney. Holofcener also wrote the screenplay for the film Walking and Talking.

Centuries ago, the Silk Road snaked across Asia and Europe. Now the Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrates the ancient trade route by bringing 350 singers, dancers, artists and storytellers from over 20 countries to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Robert Siegel travels the route for All Things Considered.

In his third report on the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit of Camp Lejeune, N.C., NPR's David Molpus went along on several different types of rescue and attack exercises. Hear the story on Morning Edition.