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Grand Isle, a narrow island south of New Orleans, is under constant threat from hurricanes. And like Louisiana's other barrier islands, it will eventually erode away. But longtime resident Ambrose Besson says he'll never leave. Journalist Jake Halpern talks to Besson in the last of his Braving Home series.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's "My love, if I die and you don't--" offers a clear-eyed tribute to everlasting love. But it's hard not to be moved listening to the late singer's gorgeous, smoky voice, as well as her unsentimental approach to music that already aches with yearning and loss.

Artist and photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn't so much take photos as make them. Alex Chadwick talks with Crewdson about how he uses techniques of film to stage pictures -- and, some critics say, transform the medium of photography.

As the U.S. Forest Service celebrates its 100-year anniversary, its mission has become more complex. Scientists are studying a vast network of plumbing under the forest floor that in the dry West is more valuable than the trees above.

In New Mexico, a new memorial center is dedicated to remembering the tragedy that almost wiped out the Navajo Nation -- the Long Walk, a forced march by U.S. Army soldiers in 1863.

In a five-part series, reporter Scott Carrier and photographer Julian Cardona profile the people who live in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez -- a place with few rules, rampant poverty and a corrupt police force that can't be trusted. See photos and learn more about the series.

In her new book, Conquering Gotham, historian Jill Jonnes documents the drama behind the construction of New York City's old Penn Station. She gathers a cast of corporate leaders, corrupt politicians and daring engineers who brought the station to life in 1910.

The latest single from the Americana Award-winning Mono is a melancholy road anthem — and its video paints French Quarter revelry as a place of lonely escape.

On this week's All Songs Considered: fuzzy guitar rock from Broncho, a howling punk number from Brighton's The Wytches, a collaboration between Cat Power and Coldplay and much more.

New acoustic music from Youssou N'Dour; The African fusion of Mali's Salif Keita; The remastered Nonesuch Explorer Series; Stardust memories of Hoagy Carmichael and more.