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ommentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Thomas Mallon''s new novel, "Henry and Clara." (Ticknor and F

Television critic DAVID BIANCULLI talks about the power of tv programs'' opening theme songs. The president of ABC Entertainment wants to do away with them.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Our Cancer Year," the book-length comic about a couple''s battle with cancer, by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner (Four Walls Eight Windows).

2: Novelist MICHAEL TOLKIN. He wrote the novel, "The Player," a satirical look at Hollywood which was made into a Robert Altman film. TOKIN also wrote and directed the film, "The Rapture." His newest work is a novel, "Among the Dead," (William Morrow & Co.).

NPR's Anne Garrels was in the Chechen capital of Grozny and reports on the scene there... burned out Russian tanks, a few Russian prisoners of war, and determined Chechen fighters.

Daniel talks with author Jayne Anne Phillips about her latest novel "Shelter," which takes place at a summer camp in West Virginia. Phillips writes vividly and poetically about the experiences of adolescent girls at the camp ... a place of seeming innocence but one in which passion, danger and perversity all emerge to change their young lives forever.

It's no accident that the track feels fast to runners. The Italian company that designed the track says its goal is to take "human speeds to levels never reached before."

During the mid-term elections there was a great outcry for less government in people's lives. NPR's John Burnett talks to small business owners in Texas, who hope the new Republican-majority Congress will mean less red tape.

A year ago today, Zapatista rebels began their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Since then, there has been an assisination, the economy nosedived and peso was dramatically devalued. Daniel talks to NPR's David Welna in Mexico City about one of the worst years in the country's history.

This is the first of four reports featured this half hour about what changes the country expects from the new Republican congress to be sworn in this week. In Boston, Anthony Brooks of member station WBUR examines the promises the new congress has made to reform welfare and what it may mean to people who now depend upon it.