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Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews the new book of verse by Vikram Seth, "A Suitable Boy."

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Paramount Pictures).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Manhatten Murder Mystery," the new Woody Allen movie.

2: Poet, essayist and screenwriter JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA. He co-wrote the screenplay for the new movie BOUND BY HONOR." It's about three young Chicano men from East Los Angeles and the different paths they take as they grow into adulthood. BACA is a Chicano who grew up in an orphanage in New Mexico and ended up in prison at the age of 20. He taught himself to read and write there. His collections of poetry include Black Mesa Poems, and Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. (New Direc

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.

2: Actor NATHAN LANE. He's currently starring in the new Neil Simon comedy on stage, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor." He played Nathan Detroit in the Broadway revival of "Guys and Dolls." Playwright Terrance McNally has written roles for LANE and says, "I need an actor like Nathan to fully express myself. I can't do it with just the words. I need his faces and gestures to finish the sentence." LANE starred in McNally's "The Lisbon Traviata," and in "Lips Together, Teeth Apart." He also was in the films "Frankie and Johnny," (as Michelle Pfeiffer's neighbor -- a part McNally wrote for him), in "Life with Mikey," (co-starring with Michael J. Fox), and has a cameo in "Adams Family Values."

Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for around 80 films, including "Age of Innocence," "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," "The Ten Commandments," "The Grifters," and "Cape Fear." (rebroadcast from 3

and Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ tells us about his favorite recordings from 1993.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new Bob Dylan album, "World Gone Wrong." (Col

Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD fills in for our regular film reviewer STEPHEN SCHIFF who is in Cannes this week with the Film Festival. WHITEHEAD reviews "Posse" a new film by MARIO VAN PEEBLES.