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Sandy Tolan of American Radio Works continues his report on Middle Eastern attitudes toward America.

NPR's Alex Chadwick gives a year-end update on the NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions stories of 2001.

On the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, commentator Walter Cronkite reflects on the lone dissenter in the Congressional vote to declare war -- political pioneer Jeanette Rankin -- and how another lone dissenting vote granting President Bush added powers to hunt Osama bin Laden echoes Rankin's own vote.

Neal Pollack's book The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature is out in paperback. The author calls it "a heady mix of aesthetic loathing and professional jealousy." It's also a wickedly funny satire of the outsized egos of American journalism. He talks with Liane Hansen on Weekend Edition Sunday.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is featuring a broad survey of art made by artists who called themselves surrealists -- and by many who didn't. David D'Arcy reports that the art movement itself defied rigid definitions, but curators keep trying.

Retired General Carl Stiner. With Tom Clancy, He co-authored of the book, Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces. General Stiner was commander in chief of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from 1990 to 1993. SOCOM is responsible for the readiness of all special operations of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

During the Great Depression, the U.S. government began an unprecedented effort to record the sights and sounds of American folk life. Producer Barrett Golding uncovered a wealth of music and interviews from Florida in the 1930s, reflecting the culture of the Jim Crow South.

Journalist Martin Meredith's new book is called Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (Public Affairs). Later this week, Zimbabwe holds presidential elections, which means Mugabe's presidency is in jeopardy. The book chronicles Mugabe's transformation from political visionary to violent dictator. Meredith has now spent many years writing about Africa -- first as a foreign correspondent for the London Observer and Sunday Times, and now as an author and commentator. His other books include, In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa's New Era and Nelson Mandela.

Intrepid Gardening Correspondent, NPR's Ketzel Levine concludes her Armchair Gardener series with stories of waterbed heaters and tomatoes, plastic wrap and forsythia. Listeners tell the lengths they'll go to protect their greenery from winter's chill.

Film critic John Powers reviews Storytelling, the new Todd Solondz movie.