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2: Novelist and short-story writer CHARLES BAXTER. He has a new novel, Shadow Play," (W.W. Norton & Co.) about a Faustian contract a man makes with a former classmate. BAXTER has written several volumes of short stories. His stories have appeared in "The New Yorker," "Harper's Magazine," "The Atlantic Monthly,." One reviewer writes, "Baxter is a master at creating loopy, poetic, and meaningfully unhinged psyches."

World music critic MILO MILES reviews the music of African reggae star Alpha Blondy. Blondy''s new albums are Masada (World Pacific label) and The Best of Alpha Blondy. (Shan

Former Black Panther ELAINE BROWN. Her new book, A Taste of Power, (Pantheon), tells the story of Brown's rise to the head of the Black Panther Party in the mid-70s and her later break with the Party

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two sequels to literary classics, "Sherlock Holmes" and "Pride and Prejudice."

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews, "A Philosophical Investigation," a new science-fiction book by British writer Philip Kerr.

2: Documentary filmmaker JIM CHAMBERS, who put together the new film "112th and Central: Through the Eyes of the Children", a documentary about the effects of the Los Angeles riots on the young people who lived through them. The film is put together from interviews of friends and family filmed by the children themselves, including 12 year old CLEOPHAS JACKSON, (Clee-oh-fus) whom Marty also interviews.

2: Professor DEBORAH LIPSTADT examines a chilling new trend in historical revisionism: disavowing the deaths of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps. Her book, "Denying the Holocaust" (Free Press) traces the rise of this reversal: the change in influence of these practitioners as isolated pamphleteers and cranks forty years ago to the point today, where a poll found one fifth of the American public think it seems "possible" that the Holocaust never happened. (REBROADCAST FROM 7/14/93).

Terry has a discussion about the politics of identity, the strengths and limitations of social and political movements that define themselves by ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. She talks with: 1) ELLEN WILLIS, professor of Journalism at NYU, and a former senior editor of The Village Voice. She's written extensively on feminist issues. Her new book of essays is "No More Nice Girls." (Wesleyan Press) 2) EDWARD SAID ("sigh-eed"), professor of literature at Columbia. He is a Palestinian American and has seen himself as someone who interprets the west for the middle east, and vice versa. His new book is "Culture and Imperialism," (Knopf) 3) GAYLE PEMBERTON, associate director of African American studies at Princeton. She's the author of "The Hottest Water in Chicago," a collection of autobiographical essays. (Faber & Faber).

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Paramount Pictures).

2: Actor and film Director BILL DUKE. He's directed several 0ff-Broadway plays, and lots of television, including PBS's award winning teleplays, "The Meeting," and "Raisin in the Sun." He directed the movies, "A Rage in Harlem," and "Deep Cover." His latest film is "The Cemetary Club," about three Jewish widows, who meet up with an charming widower. (REBROADCAST from 2

2: Poet, essayist and screenwriter JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA. He co-wrote the screenplay for the new movie BOUND BY HONOR." It's about three young Chicano men from East Los Angeles and the different paths they take as they grow into adulthood. BACA is a Chicano who grew up in an orphanage in New Mexico and ended up in prison at the age of 20. He taught himself to read and write there. His collections of poetry include Black Mesa Poems, and Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. (New Direc

DAVID MILCH, creator and a producer of ABC's police drama, "NYPD Blue". Teaming up again with Steven Bochco (who hired MILCH as a writer on "Hill Street Blues"), "NYPD Blue" has come under fire for the show's panorama of moral ambiguity, violence, partial nudity and profanity. The show's eccentric criminality may be traced to MILCH's fondness for horse racing and gambling (he owns "about a dozen" thoroughbreds), and the time he spent in a Mexican jail. CHARLES DUTTON, star of the T-V comedy series "Roc." Dutton came to acting in a very roundabout way: while serving a manslaughter sentence in the Maryland State Penitentiary, he organized the performance of a play, and realized he loved acting. A future episode of "Roc" concerns guns in the schools, and how a single act of violence can escalate tragically.