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Hang on tight. These five new works of fiction will take you on an exhilarating ride. Brace yourself for a noir he-said-she-said, an R-rated version of Marie Antoinette's life and death, a haunting tale from a back-to-nature commune and Toni Morrison's lush Home.

Thieves have been breaking into gym lockers and stealing wallets at Vida Fitness in Washington, D.C. So manager Chris Kopp posted a sign reminding people about the surveillance cameras in the locker room, then went further, slapping a flimsy lock on one locker and rigging it so flour would poof out on the person who opened it. It worked.

There were 6,000 more unemployed Americans filing for benefits last week than the week before. But inflation remained in check as gas prices plunged.

Politicians and pundits have been quick to write organized labor's obituary after Gov. Scott Walker's victory in the Wisconsin recall election, butThe Nation's Andy Kroll says the uprising in the Badger State was never meant for American electoral politics in the first place.

It's never easy when you have to apologize, especially for putting someone's head on a pike during a decapitation scene. In other news, moviegoing is down and Debra Winger is up.

Check out the latest NPR In The News, with NPR Foreign Correspondent Deborah Amos reporting from Syria.

NPR commentators favor Jennifer Close's look at women facing marriage and Amanda Hodgkinson's post-World War II family drama. There are also memoirs by actor Christopher Plummer and nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, plus Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams re-evaluate universities for the digital age.

Despite the high-profile nature of Egypt's current presidential election, Steven A. Cook of Foreign Policy says Egyptian politics is still shaped by the man ousted from that office in last year's revolution.

It's the end of the school year, and teachers and students are enjoying some downtime. But some kids won't be going back to school next fall because about a million students drop out every year. Host Michel Martin discusses the dropout crisis with teachers from three cities with high dropout rates: Las Vegas, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.

They can supposedly tell us more about a person than just whether they're sensible or stylish: Such as whether someone's in a comfortable relationship.