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Novelist Geraldine Brooks, poet Robert Hass, Western essayist William Kittredge: from critic Alan Cheuse, an array of books to keep winter's chill and the ever-earlier dark at bay — at least in the circle of light by the reader's chair.

"Seduced" at the Barbican Gallery attempts to show 2,500 years of sexuality in world art, and to explore how attitudes about what is erotic art and what is pornography have changed through the ages. It's billed as the most sexually explicit fine-art exhibition ever staged.

Chazz Palminteri returns to the stage with the semi-autobiographical tale of his youth titled A Bronx Tale. Palminteri was unemployed when he wrote the one-man show, which debuted in Los Angeles in 1989. Almost 20 years later he brings his show to Broadway.

Josh Brolin, who plays laconic Llewelyn Moss in the much-praised new Coen Brothers thriller No Country for Old Men, talks about his appetite for surprising characters and working with the filmmaking brothers.

Like the early Coen Brothers films Blood Simple and Miller's Crossing, this thriller is a genre exercise — controlled, precise and exquisite in its imagery as it makes an audience cringe.

Set in Texas in the 1980's, the film No Country for Old Men narrates a chase for stolen drug money. It's the latest from brother filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, whose films have always had violence as a theme. But this new movie is darker and more violent than ever before.

Actor/director Peter Berg's most recent project is The Kingdom, a police procedural set in Saudi Arabia. Berg talks about the film, which stars Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper.

Margaret Cho is wll-known for her bawdy stand-up comedy that takes no prisoners on the topics of sexuality and race. But with her new burlesque show, The Sensuous Woman, Cho takes on body image as well. Cho talks with Andrea Seabrook about baring it all onstage.

All Things Considered film critic Bob Mondello examines Sputnik's impact on the silver screen.

Eric Lander tendered his letter of resignation hours after a Politico article reported that the White House had found that he bullied and demeaned his subordinates.