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Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory chronicles the rise and fall of a Chinese businessman, told from the point of view of three narrators.

Robert Siegel talks with Hugh Pope of the Wall Street Journal about his latest book, Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World. Pope follows the history of the Turkic people — an ethnic group covering some 140 million people in Central Asia.

His memoir is The Good, the Bad, and Me. Wallach's long career on stage and screen, included spaghetti westerns of the '60s and the Godfather trilogy. He won a Tony for his role in Tennessee Williams' Rose Tattoo. (This interview was initially broadcast on Nov. 13, 1990.)

Five years ago, Tom DeBaggio told his personal story about his battle with early-onset Alzheimer's. A return visit finds the former nursery owner less sure of himself — and scared to death of getting lost again.

Journalist and novelist Philip Caputo's new novel, Acts of Faith, is set in Sudan during that country's civil war. It depicts the consequences — intended and otherwise — the conflict has on aid workers and missionaries involved in relief work.

Melissa Block talks with Professor Sarah Binder about the history and tactics of Senate filibusters. Binder teaches political science at George Washington University and is co-author of Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate.

Author Frederick Clarkson wrote the book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy And Democracy, on the growing religious movement to influence government. Clarkson has written articles on the religious right's plans to take over the Republican Party, and how elements of the right encouraged citizen militias.

Peter D. Kramer's new book is Against Depression. In it, the author of Listening to Prozac puts forth an understanding of depression as a modern scourge. Kramer argues that depression should be considered a disease — and treated as such. Kramer is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Brown University.

Renee Montagne talks to Michelle Feynman, daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman, who was just 24 when he began working on the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project. A new collection of his letters, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, was published recently.

Eight years ago, Shannon Applegate inherited a five-acre cemetery dating back to the pioneer era in western Oregon. The experience has led the historian and writer to pen a book, Living Among Headstones.