Four Stories by Somerset Maugham

The British director's first movie in the United States was the Academy Award-winning Midnight Cowboy. His forthcoming feature, Madame Sousatzka, stars Shirley McLaine. Schlesinger joins Fresh Air to talk about some of his early work, including Sunday Bloody Sunday and Marathon Man.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says Galway is both masterful and unusually modest when performing the concertos of Saverio Mercadante. But a new greatest hits collection, which features truncated and pop versions of orchestral works, is little more than crass commercialism.

At 85, Dr. Benjamin Spock has written and published a new book of parenting advice. Spock's philosophy is informed by both his medical and psychological training. In the 1960s, when he was in his 60s, Spock protested against the Vietnam War -- a decision which was not popular with all his readers.