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Slate contributor Ben Williams offers a weekly round-up of what film critics are saying about the weekend's major new movie releases, including The Forgotten, First Daughter and The Motorcycle Diaries.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews Desperate Housewives, a new series that takes a dark look at suburbia.

We broadcast excerpts from a recent panel presented by The New Yorker magazine. On the panel were network news anchors Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. They discuss the presidential campaign and network news. The panel was moderated by Ken Auletta, a contributor to The New Yorker who writes the Annals of Communications column for the magazine.

For listeners who want to see a movie this weekend but don't want to scour the film reviews to make up their minds, Slate contributor Ben Williams offers this roundup of critical comment on this weekend's new releases. Premiering this Friday: Shark Tale, Ladder 49 and I Heart Huckabees.

Gospel-soul icon Mavis Staples talks with NPR's Tavis Smiley about her new CD, Have A Little Faith, and life as a solo artist

Day to Day book critic David Kipen reviews Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?, the newest offering from literary and cultural critic Harold Bloom.

Day to Day and San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer David Kipen offers his critique of America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction from political satirist Jon Stewart and the writers behind The Daily Show.

Gretchen Berland uses experience from her previous career of making documentaries to compose video projects on health-care topics. She has won a $500,000 "genius award" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The Falls, the latest novel from Joyce Carol Oates, is a dark, fast-moving tale that begins with the suicide of a newlywed seminary student who leaps into Niagara Falls. Critic Alan Cheuse has a review.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a reissued book called Visa for Avalon by Bryher, the pen name of an Englishwoman named Annie Winifred Ellerman. Visa for Avalon is a political allegory first published in 1965.