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On this edition of Fresh Air, host Barbara Bogaev speaks with architect and critic Anthony Vidler. He'll discuss urban planning and architecture in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Vidler is Dean of the Cooper Union School of Architecture and professor of art and architecture at UCLA. Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new novel London Bridges by Jane Stevenson. Director Ric Burns discusses the last two episodes of his film series New York: A Documentary Film.

Percussionist Jonathan Haas and writer Jake Arnott on this edition of Fresh Air. Jonathan Haas is a solo timpani player who's garnered international praise. He plays all styles of music, from classical to jazz and rock. He's commissioned pieces for the timpani. He is the principal timpanist for the New York Chamber Symphony, the Aspen Chamber Orchestra, and the EOS Ensemble. He regularly performs with numerous other orchestras worldwide.

Music writer Peter Guralnick, Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips (who died last night in Memphis at age 80), and guitarist and record producer Scotty Moore on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Music writer Peter Guralnick, in part one of his biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, tells much of the story of Elvis' life and people who knew him then.

Fresh Air film and music critics pick the best of 2003 on this year-end edition of Fresh Air. Film critic David Edelstein talks with host Terry Gross about the year's top films. David Edelstein is a film critic for the online magazine Slate.

Hear TV producers Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer, and climatologist Kerry Emmanuel, on this edition of Fresh Air. Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer co-created the HBO series Big Love, now in its second season. It's about a man (Bill Paxton) and his three wives (Chloe Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Amanda Seyfried).

Country singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale, music director Charles Hazlewood, and South African singers Sandnile Kamle and Pualine Malefane. Jim Lauderdale's been called the "not-so missing link between soul and country." His songs have been recorded by Vince Gill, George Strait, the Dixie Chicks, Shelby Lynne, and many others. But he's also recorded over a dozen of his own solo albums and has sung background vocals on more than 40 albums.

Hear author and TV executive Bill Flanagan, TV critic David Bianculli, and British singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson on this edition of Fresh Air. Bill Flanagan is executive vice president of MTV Networks. His new novel New Bedlam skewers the cable TV business. Flanagan is also the author of A&R (another funny book) about the music industry.

Former fighter pilot Keith Rosenkranz and poet Sam Hammill on this edition of Fresh Air. During the first Gulf War, Keith Rosenkranz flew thirty combat missions in his F-16. He wrote about the experience in his book, Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot. In January, Sam Hamill was invited by First Lady Laura Bush to the White House for a symposium on poetry.

Spanish and Portuguese professor Maria Rose Menocal and writer, musician, and broadcaster Jamie Bernstein Thomas on this edition of Fresh Air. Maria Rose Menocal is a R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is also the author of the new book: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain.

Author John Grisham and actress Elaine Stritch on this archive edition of Fresh Air. John Grisham is one of the most popular writers of the legal thriller genre. His most recent book is called The Summons. It's marked a return to the thriller after his novel, A Painted House. The Summons is about two brothers, their recently deceased father, and a mysterious stash of three million dollars.

Filmmaker Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian film. His two documentaries are Dreams Betrayed and Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the Revolution. Together, they explore Iranian filmmaking before and after the 1979 revolution. In Iranian films, male and female characters are not allowed to touch, ever, and women must be veiled at all times. Despite these and other limitations, Iranian cinema has garnered international critical acclaim.

Hear German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, rock historian Ed Ward, and linguist Geoff Nunberg on this edition of Fresh Air. Astrid Kirchherr met the Beatles in 1960, before they were famous, when they came to perform in Hamburg, Germany. She took some of the earliest photographs of the group and was engaged to the late Stu Sutcliff, the original bassist for the Beatles.

Journalists Cam Simpson and Flynn McRoberts and actor Peter Sarsgaard on this edition of Fresh Air. Simpson and McRoberts collaborated (along with journalist Liz Sly) on a three part special series in the Chicago Tribune. The series, "Tossed Out of America," is about the crackdown on Muslims who are illegal immigrants in the US.

Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson and actor Robert Forster on this edition of Fresh Air. Wanda Jackson had several hits in the late 50s and early 60s, including "Mean Mean Man". "Let's Have a Party" and "Fujiyama Mama".

Author Philip Dray on this edition of Fresh Air. Philip Dray is the author of the book At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. Dray chronicles the incidents of lynching: from 1882-85 the number of whites lynched exceeded the number of blacks. But after 1886 the number of blacks lynched exceeded that of whites. And not until 1952 did a year pass without a single recorded lynching.

On this archival edition of Fresh Air, playwright and satirist from South Africa Pieter Dirk-Uys, and writer and director Todd Haynes. Dirk-Uys has a television talk show in South Africa that has an unusual twist. Instead of hosting his show as himself, he dresses drag as an Afrikaner dowager named Evita. His guests include such leaders as Nelson Mandela. His show is said to be "a way of making the country's leaders seem more human."

Film director Rob Marshall and conductor Paul Bogaev on this edition of Fresh Air. Rob Marshall directed and choreographed the new film adaptation of Chicago. It stars Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and Queen Latifah. Previously, Marshall won an Emmy for Best Choreography for his work on the movie musical Annie.

Writer Samuel Freedman on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Samuel Freedman wrote a book about the state of the American Jewish Community called Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. Freedman believes that three fundamental questions are rending the American Jewish community today: "What is the definition of Jewish identity? Who decides what is authentic and legitimate Judaism? And what is the Jewish compact with America?"

Guitarist and singer Howard Fishman and writer Philip Simmons on this edition of Fresh Air. Fishman is of the Howard Fishman Quartet, a group resurrecting the jazz and swing music of the early 20th century, while their experimental and improvisational style sets them apart. Philip Simmons was diagnosed eight years ago, at the age of 35, with ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The disease is degenerative, with no cure.

From the Library of Congress, Recording Sound Specialist, Samuel Brylawski and acquisition specialist Cooper Graham and former White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater on this edition of Fresh Air. The two compiled a collection of presidential speeches dating back 85 years Historic Presidential Speeches (1908-1993).