Books

Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn is a pioneer in the area of behavioral medicine. Since 1979 he has used Eastern "mindfulness meditation" techniques in treating chronic pain, stress, and life-threatening disease. He founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. His clinic was featured in Bill Moyer's PBS series, "Healing and the Mind." Kabat-Zinn's new book is "Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life." (Hyperion).

Former special assistant for National Security Affairs under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, McGeorge Bundy. He's co-authored a new book with Admiral William Crowe, "Reducing Nuclear Danger," XXXX. Terry will talk with Bundy about the threat that still exists of nuclear disaster from such countries as Iraq and North Korea.

British religious scholar Karen Armstrong. Her new book, a bestseller in England, is "A History of God" (Knopf). "All religions have been designed to help us touch the God in each other" Armstrong says of her research, which traces 4000 years of Monotheism in the form of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The author, a Catholic nun for seven years in the 1960's, left the order to take a degree at Oxford, and now teaches at the Leo Baeck College for the study of Judaism.

Maureen Corrigan reviews "A Very Long Engagement," by French novelist Sebastien Japrisot.

Pop artist David Hockney. He's worked in many mediums-- from painting and drawing to working with fax and copy machines. Hockney made waves in the art world with his take on photography--compiling hundreds of polaroid snap-shots in a photocollage. In 1979 Hockney started to lose his hearing. Now, near deaf, his art reflects his insights on his loss of hearing. Hockney's new book, "That's The Way I See It" (Chronicle Books), is his second volume of reflections.

Maureen Corrigan reviews Wendy Lesser's book, "Pictures at an Execution," looking at why we are fascinated with murder.

Former president of Harvard Derek Bok. In his new book, "The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals Are Paid and How It Affects America" (Free Press), BOK argues that the rich shouldn't be so much richer. He says that huge salary gaps result in social and economic losses, "jeopardiz[ing] democracy by weakening faith in the economic system". Bok was the president of Harvard University from 1971 to 1991. He has written five other books.

Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Jacqueline Deval's new book, "Reckless Appetites" (Ecco).

Maureen Corrigan reviews novelist E.L. Doctorow's first book of essays, entitled "Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution."

Ralph Wiley: journalist, staff writer at "Sports Illustrated" for nine years, he's now an essayist on the dynamics of race in America. His pieces have been collected in two books, "Why Black People Tend to Shout" (Penguin) and newly, "What Black People Should Do Now" (Ballantine).