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Our book critic reviews two new novels: Pound for Pound by late writer F.X. Toole, and The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos.

Tom Vitale reports on a new collection of short stories about boxing called Rope Burns. The 70-year-old author, F.X. Toole, has a life story as interesting as the fiction he writes.

Music critic Milo Miles tells us about a New York group of hip-hop DJs known as the X-Ecutioners. Their new CD is called Revolutions.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Song X: Twentieth Anniversary, a reissue and remix of a 1985 collaboration between guitarist Pat Metheny and saxophonist Ornette Coleman.

While Google is busy running its search, email and smart-device businesses, one division of its parent company is focused on the future.

At age 70, the late writer and former boxing "cut man" F.X. Toole published his first book, a collection of short stories about boxing called Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, to critical praise. We rebroadcast a Sept. 26, 2000, interview with Toole.

The British duo plays a gloomy and stirring nursery rhyme in an Airstream trailer like something out of a David Lynch film.

The Drag Race queen returns with a synthwave track that channels the 1980s goth scene.

A large new study finds that digital mammograms are better at detecting breast cancer than traditional methods that rely on X-ray film. But the results apply only to certain groups of women.

Scientists have used a particle accelerator to read ancient scrolls without unrolling them. The breakthrough could potentially be used to decipher hundreds of texts.