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Antiretroviral therapies to treat AIDS have transformed patients' lives and Dr. Michael Saag's practice at the University of Alabama-Birmingham's Center for AIDS Research. But Saag says the therapies have brought new worries, such as concerns about drug resistance and the quality of life for AIDS patients who now live much longer.

Noah talks to Fatemah Ziai (FAH-tee-mah zee-AH-ee), counsel for Human Rights Watch Middle East, about the detention of Iyad al-Sarraj (EE-yad al saw-RAWJ) (rhymes with garage) by the Palestinian Authority. A psychiatrist and human rights activist, al-Sarraj has been critical of the Palestinian Authority's governance of the West Bank and Gaza. Human Rights Watch and two other U.S.-based human rights groups have criticized his detention.

militant Islamic group Hamas. Israel has sealed off Gaza and the West Bank, and has resorted to tactics not used since the intifada, or Palestinian uprising, in 1988. Hamas says it is undeterred by the Israeli aggression, and has promised renewed terrorist attacks against Israel.

The U.S. government announces that it is expanding efforts to test wild and domestic birds for the deadly Asian bird-flu virus. Experts say it is a matter of when, not if, the virus arrives in the United States. We visit two Maryland chicken farms to see how U.S. farmers are preparing for the threat.

After a 10-year silence, Louis de Bernières, author of Corelli's Mandolin, returns with a new novel. Birds Without Wings is a historical romance set in a remote village during the waning days of the Ottoman empire. NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with de Bernières.

Journalist Steven V. Roberts was writing about his family when his mother produced letters she had exchanged with his father years ago. Roberts talks about his parents and his new book, My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family.

Thirty years ago, the uprising of a group of schoolchildren forever changed South Africa's history. What began as a protest against a government education policy became a watershed moment in the fight against apartheid.

Legendary pianist Hank Jones was one of Marian McPartland's first guests when she began Piano Jazz more than 30 years ago. Jones died earlier this year, but in this 2009 session, McPartland asked another of her favorite pianists, Bill Charlap, to take a turn on the host's bench to catch up with Jones.

In this week's Behind Closed Doors, television broadcaster Lee Thomas talks about his book Turning White: A Memoir of Change and how his experience with Vitiligo made him realize that beauty is more than skin deep.

Michele Norris talks with Natasha Richardson, lead actress in the new film Asylum, which was adapted from the book by Patrick McGrath. Richardson plays Stella, the wife of an accomplished psychiatrist. She falls obsessively in love with a patient at her husband's institution. Richardson and Norris discuss the psychology of the attraction as seen in the film as well as the background behind the film, including the role Richardson's real-life husband, Liam Neeson, played in its development.

Ian McEwan talks about Saturday, which tracks a neurosurgeon over a single day. McEwan says the parallels to Virginia Woolf and James Joyce may seem obvious in limiting a narrative to 24 hours, but he was more influenced by Saul Bellow and John Updike.

Ed Gordon talks with Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, about his bid to become the Buckeye State's first African-American governor.