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The provocative British writer talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book, Inside Story, which reflects on the significant men in his life, including his father Kingsley, his mentor Saul Bellow, and his closest friend, writer and critic Christopher Hitchens.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of England's finest writers, Ian McEwan. They talk about his post-9/11 novel, Saturday, and his latest dysfunctional romance, On Chesil Beach.

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.

Today, more from London: Eleanor talks with two of England's most popular, prolific, and satirical novelists - Fay Weldon and Kingsley Amis.

Part I: Biographer Anthony Thwaite on the preeminent poet of post-war Britain, Philip Larkin; Part II: An interview and reading with one of the most original and risk-taking young American writers, Lorrie Moore.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with the Bad Boy of Brit Lit - Martin Amis. His new novel, The House of Meetings, is being touted as his best ever. Set in the Russian Gulag, it's a love triangle with a twist.

This week on Writers and Company, Part Two of Eleanor Wachtel's conversation with one of England's hottest and most controversial writers, Martin Amis. In this episode, Amis talks about the family: new daughters, a long-lost daughter, family tragedy, but especially his father, novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. Episode includes part of an interview that Eleanor did with Kingsley Amis in 1992, as well as a recording of Kingsley reading from his Collected Poems: 1944-1979.

Eleanor interviews an author described as the cleverest, most entertaining - and most notorious - English writer of his age, Martin Amis. Amis reads from his books The Information and Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, and Other Excursions

​​​ 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.