Phillip Lopate on Adopting a Voice Against Sentimentalism.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a new 16-CD box set by alto saxophonist Art Pepper, called "The Complete Galaxy Recordings."

Poet and essayist John Haines. Haines' new book "The Stars, The Snow, The Fire," recalls the 25 years he spent homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. Haines is "one of our best nature writers," according to Hayden Carruth of Harpers Magazine. Carruth writes that Haines also "knows the ecological crisis ... as a crisis of consciousness, the human mind in ultimate confrontation with itself." (Rebroadcast. Original date July 25, 1989).

This week marks the 10th anniversary of ABC's "Nightline," and television critic David Bianculli examines how the show went from a special on the hostage crisis to one of the most important programs in broadcast journalism.