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Columbia Street in New Westminster, B.C. Some storefronts, automobiles and a streetcar are shown.

Exhibition buildings at Queen's Park, New Westminster, B.C.

From New York, playwright and screenwriter, Quiara Alegría Hudes. The Pulitzer Prize-winner is best known for her collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the popular musical and feature film, In the Heights. In her new memoir, My Broken Language, she explores the intersection of identity and language, in relation to home. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.

Eleanor speaks with Native American writer Sherman Alexie about his memoir, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me. The book focuses on his complicated relationship with his mother, and his difficult upbringing on a Spokane reservation in Washington state.

"Aftershock: Chile in Transition" Pt. 4, with the dynamic, award-winning filmmaker Alicia Scherson. Also, poet, memoirist, and activist Marjorie Agosín. Alicia Scherson's films are Play, and Turistas, and Marjorie Agosín's latest book of poetry is called The Light of Desire.

"Democracy in America" - Australia's Peter Carey re-imagines Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century journey to the new world and the state of the union 140 years later during the Vietnam War.

This week, a Panel discussions to mark the tenth anniversary of September 11th. Host Eleanor Wachtel with guests Amy Waldman, Sinan Antoon and Jane Kramer talk about how the events of September 11th have influenced literature over the intervening years, both in the west and in the Arab and Muslim world.

Parisian writer Emmanuel Carrère is the author of compelling, often dark, books. But, as part of his personal evolution, he has become preoccupied with ideas of goodness.

This week, Eleanor Wachtel talks with writer Kamila Shamsie. Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, she now lives in London. Last year she was named on of Granta Magazine's Best Young Novelists. Her new novel, A God in Every Stone, crosses cultures and centuries to reveal the contradictions of empire in the aftermath of World War I.

​​​ British novelist Martin Amis has been extremely controversial in his lifetime and has been described as a master of "the new unpleasantness." His most recent novel, The Zone of Interest, revisits the Holocaust from a different angle.

Today on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel interviews English novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Famous for the Cazalet Chronicle and a dozen other books, she turns now to her own life in her memoir, Slipstream.

Week 2 in the special series "Argentina: The Unofficial Stories." This week, screenplay writer Aída Bortnik and fiction writer/filmmaker Eduardo Cozarinsky. Aída Bortnik: Born in 1938 Buenos Aires, dramatist Aída Bortnik is best known for her screenplay of The Official Story, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1985, opening the world's eyes to one of the darkest secrets of the "Dirty War." Originally a playwright, she is also recognized for her involvement with the legendary Open…

Eleanor Wachtel talks with Jamaican English novelist Andrea Levy this week on Writers and Company. Her latest book, Small Island, won both the Whitbread Award and the Orange Prize.

More in the special series Memory and Myth: The Rebirth of Central Europe this week on Writers and Company. Host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Julia Hartwig, one of Poland's most highly respected poets. During the Second World War, she was a member of the underground Home Army and a student of the underground university in Warsaw. Also, Ivan Klíma, the foremost Czech novelist and essayist of his generation. Interned as a child at the Terezin concentration camp, he became one of his country's…