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On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to stick tiny, high-tech satellite tracking devices onto narwhals — a kind of Arctic whale famous for its long, spiral unicorn horn.

A disciplinary trial could end the career of Texas Court of Appeals Judge Sharon Keller who refused to keep her court open past 5 p.m. for a last-minute appeal by a death row inmate. The inmate was executed hours later. Chuck Lindell, a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman who is covering the trial, offers his insight.

Newspapers are in trouble, and many Web sites, blogs and cable news shows have opinionated hosts at the helm. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Jones talks about his book, Losing the News, and the crisis facing impartial reporting.

Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan was detained at Newark airport when he arrived in New Jersey last week. Khan says his name came up on a computer alert list, and that prompted the questioning. While U.S. immigration officials deny he was formally held, the incident has enraged fans in India.

Rafael Yglesias' novel is inspired by his wife, Margaret, who died in 2004. A Happy Marriage spans their three-decade relationship, from their courtship to her battle with cancer.

Amid recent blows to the Taliban, many in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar are convinced that the setbacks are real. But there are also concerns that the Pakistani government is failing to press home its advantage.

Forty years ago, Joel Rosenman and John Roberts were in their 20s when they came into a large inheritance. They decided to take the money and promote a rock concert in upstate New York — an event that later became known as Woodstock.

A native of Beijing, author Diane Liang sometimes simplifies some of the Chinese names and details in her books for the benefit of her foreign audience. Nevertheless, her fiction is still steeped in the sights and sounds of her homeland.

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein discusses the impact of Wal-Mart on both the American and the global economy in his new book, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business.

Set in the 1920s and 1930s — mostly in the section of the city that later became East Berlin — Philip Kerr's crime novels feature a climate of extreme violence and debauchery, full of rogues, cheats and liars.