Weekend Edition Saturday

More than a quarter-million secret U.S. diplomatic cables in WikiLeaks' possession have found their way onto the Internet in an apparent inadvertent release. The cables are now available in their raw, unedited and unredacted form, potentially jeopardizing officials and their sources.

Justin Torres' debut novel is a welterweight champ of a book. It tells the story of three brothers growing up in a family that is both fiercely loyal and violently chaotic. Together, they endure their parents, their poverty and, of course, each other.

The movie that gave Prince his screen debut was also an ode to the diverse music scene of the artist's home town. In 1984, when the movie came out, funk, R&B and indie and punk rock all thrived. Locals say that today, that diversity is the movie's legacy.

Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador on Friday after the U.N. released a report on the deadly 2010 Turkish "flotilla incident." The report concluded that Israel had used excessive force to stop Turkish ships bringing supplies to Palestinians in Gaza. Times of London correspondent James Hider talks with host Scott Simon about the latest downgrade in ties between Turkey and Israel, and Israel's strain in ties with Egypt and Jordan since the Arab Spring. This month, Palestinians also take their case for statehood to the U.N. General Assembly.

There are hazards in paraphrasing important quotes, as poet Maya Angelou pointed out when she criticized the new Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on the National Mall. Excerpts are often reduced to clips, bites and tweets, and quotes get transformed to fit — or get attention. But this is not new.