Books

Book critic John Leonard reviews the author's newest book, "Operation Shylock." Leonard says its insights into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "may even be profound."

Book critic John Leonard reviews the new historical novel, "The Rape of the Rose," by Glyn Hughes, about the Luddite rebellion in England.

What does 'artistic temperament' really mean? In her new book, "Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament," Kay Jamison has studied the psychological makeup of many of our most revered artists--Byron, Tennyson, Van Gogh, Hemingway--and linked their genius to manic-depression. Jamison looks at current treatments for manic-depression, and considers their affect on a patient's ability to create. Kay Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews the author's debut crime novel, "Bucket Nut."

Professor of African-American studies, Gerald Early. He'll talk with Terry about the dilemma of being a middle-class African American intellectual, and how that kind of life can separate a person from the black community. His new book is "Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation."

Commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews "A Trifle, a Coddle, a Fry," a collection of recipes of Irish authors' favorite foods.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "Culture and Imperialism" by the Palestinian-born scholar. The book revisits several themes first explored in Said's now-classic "Orientalism."

Journalist Robert Cullen was Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief in the Soviet Union. He has a new book The Killer Department." It's about one detective's eight year hunt for the man known as "the most savage serial killer in Russian history." Cullen is also the author of, "Twilight of Empire: Inside the Crumbling Soviet Bloc," about the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "The Passion of Michel Foucault," by James Miller, a biography of the French philosopher.

Attorney and writer Mary Frances Berry. She's a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a professor of history and law at the University of Pennsylvania. She's written a new book about the tradition of "mother-care" in our society, the notion that women have principal responsibility for childcare.