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A woman looks at "Schermo - The End" by Italian artist [Fabio Mauri ](http://www.fabiomauri.com/)at the [dOCUMENTA (13)](http://d13.documenta.de/) modern and contemporary art fair in Kassel, Germany.

Leftover Salmon Serves Up a New Dish

After an eight year hiatus, Colorado bluegrass band Leftover Salmon has released a new album and is back on the road touring. Formed in 1989 by guitarist Vince Herman, mandolin player Drew Emmitt and banjo player Mark Vann, Leftover Salmon…

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A woman sits next to a bronze statue of Albert Einstein, which is part of "Bench Art in Marunouchi" in Tokyo. The exhibition features 20 bronze statues of famous individuals on benches and runs through Oct. 14.

Iraq War Veteran Wins Inaugural Prize From Iowa Review

Iraq War veteran Hugh Martin has won the first-ever Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award from The Iowa Review, the literary journal announced Tuesday. Martin, a poet and author who served in the Ohio Army National Guard from 2001 to 2007 and…

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Zoe Koosoulis, left, and her daughter Eleni work on a painting of the lower Manhattan skyline Monday at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. Koosoulis lost her daughter Danielle during the 9/11 attacks.

Weekly Poem: ‘Second Helping’

Michael Robbins is the author of the collection of poems "Alien vs. Predator" (Penguin, 2012). His poems have appeared in several publications, including the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's and Boston Review. He reviews books for the London Review of Books…

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Two of the thousands of people who have attended an exhibition of more than 200,000 butterflies in Changsha, China, last week.

A Musical Review of the 2012 Republican Convention

By Ellen Rolfes

Tampa, Fla. -- 3 Doors Down premiered their new single "One Light" on Aug. 30, 2012 at the Republican National Convention. Early on in the 2012 RNC Convention Gwen Ifill commented that Republicans traditionally have selected country and classical music…

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Photo of Treasure Island, Fla., by Tom Pennington/Getty Images.

Conversation: Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass on Their New Film, ‘Sleepwalk With Me’

By Tom LeGro

"Sleepwalk With Me" began life in, well, the real-life, sleep-walking episodes of comedian Mike Birbiglia, then a one-man theater production, a radio story on "This American Life," a book, an album and now a movie.