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To conclude our series on War & Remembrance - Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American World War II veteran, author, and professor of literature, Paul Fussell. Fussell is famous for his acute analyses of both World Wars and the ways they have been mythologized. His latest book is Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic.

PANEL: Professor Linda Hutcheon, novelist Nino Ricci, and poet Maxine Tynes discuss multiculturalism in Canadian literature. (includes discussion of L. Hutcheon (Ed.), Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions,1990,Oxford Univ. Press). LIT FEATURE: A performance of a specially-commissioned work, "The Little Warrior," by author M.G. Vassanji. Read by Sugith Varughese and Moya Fenwick. INTERVIEW: Susan Swan discusses her "guilty pleasure" - reading women's magazines.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with literary critic and writer James Wood. Wood is one courageous critic - he's taken on Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison and John Updike, to name a few. What trumps the controversy around his writing is his passion for fiction.

This week on Writers & Company, Eleanor Wachtel talks with England's Howard Jacobson. He reveals his ambition and his anger - along with his brilliance - in a new novel called Kalooki Nights.

Eleanor interviews American novelist, essayist, and critic, William Gass. One of America's most distinguished senior men of letters. His newest novel - The Tunnel - is a provocative meditation on evil, history, and the sheer exuberance of language.

An interview with one of the most brilliant minds and provocative thinkers of our time - George Steiner. He talks with Eleanor about his love of books, his development as an intellectual, morality, and the marvels of language.