An interview with Paul Berman, the author of "Terror and Liberalism," about his new book, "Power and the Idealists," and how it began with a photograph of former German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, as a young revolutionary leftist.

Salon.com book reviewer and New York times contributer talks about year-end Critics' "best-of" lists - how she compiles hers, what the critera are, what role popularity plays, what role political considerations play, how much attention people pay, and more...

Radical Librarian, Jessamyn West, joins us to discuss roving Camel libraries in Kenya and the widening divide between the digital world and rural libraries.

George Murray reports from Canada on the decline of English Language fiction sales, a $1.3 billion deal between the owners of the 'Toronto Star' and the 'Globe and Mail' newspapers, and this year's 'Canada Reads' list; an interview with Lucinda Carter, of the French Publisher's Agency, a unique agency that helps French publishers place their books in the U.S.; and a look at the gender bias in this weeks' "New York Review of Books"' table of contents.

Former poet laureate of Queens, Hal Sirowitz, reads some examples of his new poetic form, the "Hal-ku," and explains his great popularity in Sweden; and Monty Python covers the writing of a Thomas Hardy novel.

An interview with Rosalyn Pierson who has been planting copies of Don Quixote all across the city of Miami; and a dispatch from our far flung correspondent in the Netherlands on the polyglot reading habits of the Dutch.

An interview with Connie Doebly, the Executive Producer of C-SPAN's Book-TV on why Book-TV doesn't cover fiction, and what happens if an author taped for Book-TV turns out to be boring, among other things, and letters to the editor.

UK correspondent Mark Thwaite gives us the latest on the connections between schizophrenia, art, and sex, Random House's guerilla marketing campaign for John Grisham's new novel, and suspicious food found in a shipment of a scholarly edition of Osama bin Laden's writings, among other things, and publisher Doug Siebold explains why book returns are good for nobody.

Author James Marcus discusses "Amazonia," an account of his experiences working at Amazon.com from the early days, our Canada correspondent George Murray gives us the latest news from the North, and the launch of a new series of interviews with Melville House foreign sub-agents.