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Moroccan sociologist and Koranic scholar, Fatima Mernissi ("Mur-NEE-see"). Her new book explores how the sacred texts of Islam are used both by feminists and defenders of democracy as well as the violent fundamentalists which oppose them: "Islam & Democracy" (Addison-Wesley). An earlier book, "The Veil and the Male Elite" (Addison-Wesley) was a feminist interpretation of Women's rights in Islam. Her new book, due out in the summer of 1994 is "Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood".

We play a special track from the "Fresh Air in Concert" CD: Charles Brown performing "Fool''s Paradise", recorded January 13, 1989.

Dagoberto Gilb with a commentary about his son. ("Books

2: Interview with MILOS FORMAN continues.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Interview with a Vampire," starring Tom Cruise.REV. 2: We remember jazz singer Carmen McRae, who died last night at age 74. McRae has been called one of the three greatest female jazz singers, along with Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

Middle East expert and British hostage in Beirut, TERRY WAITE. While in Lebanon in 1987, as an Anglican Church envoy to negotiate the release of hostages there, WAITE himself was captured. He was held for 1,763 days (nearly five years); four years of that time was spent in solitary confinement. He had made numerous trips to the Middle East to negotiate hostage releases in Tehran and Beirut, and was no stranger to the danger of factional conflicts: in 1969 WAITE and his wife narrowly escaped the Idi Amin coup in Uganda. WAITE's memoirs of his captivity --composed in his head--while in captivity, are now published, "Taken on Trust" (HBJ). (INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD pays tribute to the singer, Billy Eckstine, who died last Monday.

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new movie "The Firm," which stars Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris and Holly Hunter.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER has a review of "Pretty Close to the Truth" (Atlantic), the new recording by Jim Lauderdale. INT. 2: Biographer PETER MANSO. He''s written "Brando: The Biography" (Hyperion), the result of seven years of research and over 700 interviews. It tells the story of Brando as a man with a hidden troubled life. MANSO is also the author of an oral biography of Norman Mailer. REV. 2: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "Scarlett," CBS'' eight-hour mini-series that starts this Sunday.

Film Critic Stephen Schiff on Hollywood''s latest epic, "House of the Spirits," based on the book by Isabel Allende.