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October is high season for apples, which makes master baker Dorie Greenspan very happy. The author of Baking: From My Home to Yours shares a recipe for tarte tatin, a French dessert that resembles apple cobbler.

Washington Post senior correspondent Thomas Ricks says the Iraq war is likely to last at least another five to 10 years. He has written a new book about General David Petraeus and the Iraq war called The Gamble.

The Newsweek journalist writes that the NYPD has become one of the world's best intelligence-gathering operations; his book Securing the City explores New York City's creation of an elite counter-terror force.

Tanzania's Information Ministry is installing high-speed internet on Africa's highest mountain. Right now climbers can use it at roughly 12,200 feet. Connectivity to the summit comes later this year.

Kaing Guek Eav, the former Khmer Rouge interrogator known as Duch, was brought to court in Cambodia for a pretrial hearing. It is the first public session of the U.N.-backed tribunal probing the regime's reign of terror in the 1970s. Duch, 66, is charged with crimes against humanity.

The gifted singer-songwriter performs tunes from her fourth full-length, See You on the Moon, and unpacks the personal ties to her highly narrative songs.

On Fragrant World, the band adopts a sparser sound. Hear Yeasayer perform live in the studio.

The folk-pop singer's career stretches across two decades and the staying power to last a couple more. Hear her perform songs from the latest installment if her Close-Up series, live.

Lo-fi surf-rock's sweetheart released one of the most debated albums of 2010, Crazy For You. Hear the trio's sun-soaked pop live in the WXPN studios.

The Toronto band is back with a new album and a new drummer. Hear two tracks from its latest album, Light the Horizon, on "World Cafe: Next."