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Francisco Goldman, Imbolo Mbue and David Treuer reflect on cultural collision in the United States. Eleanor sat down with the three prize-winning writers on stage at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montréal.

Stable, tolerant, liberal--that's the reputation long enjoyed by the Netherlands. But, that changed dramatically a few years ago when outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered. The country's enviable social model was called into question. Tune in to Writers & Company this week for a continuation of "The Dutch Debate: New Realities of the Netherlands." In this series, host Eleanor Wachtel talks to some of the Netherlands' leading writers about immigration's impact on Dutch identity…

English writer John Lanchester's novel, Capital, is a big Dickensian take on modern London on the brink of the 2008 financial meltdown.

This week on Writers & Company - "War and its Aftermath." Eleanor Wachtel talks to Scottish historian Niall Ferguson about his book The Pity of War, and to Canadian Margaret MacMillan about Paris 1919.

In a continuation of the series on International Short Story Writers - from Antigua and Vermont - Jamaica Kincaid. She talks about familial relationships, her book Lucy and reads "Somewhere, Belgium" from Annie John.

Part I: From England, Caryl Phillips. After his Booker short-listed novel about slavery and racism, Crossing the River, he has a new book about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism called The Nature of Blood. Part II: Popular fiction writer Alice Adams talks about love, doctors, and growing up in the South.

Part I: 4000 years of war with one of Britain's leading military historians, John Keegan. Part II: M.G. Vassanji's ambitious novel, The Book of Secrets, is winning praise and prizes. Included in this episode is a scene from The Book of Secrets, performed by Julian Richings and Sugith Varughese.