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This week on Writers & Company, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm combines literary biography with investigative journalism in her vivid portrait of the legendary couple, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with novelist, cultural commentator and historian, Eva Hoffman. The discussion ranges from her memoir of growing up in war-ravaged Poland to her exploration of Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Eva Hoffman's newest book is called Time. Time is published by Picador.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with one of America's funniest immigrant satirists, Gary Shteyngart. When he was 5, his grandmother gave him a piece of waxy Russian cheese for every page he wrote. It must have been excellent training, because now he's written a touching new memoir, Little Failure.

"Politics in Fiction" : French psychoanalyst and literary theorist, Julia Kristeva talks about her first novel, called The Samurai. And Ian McEwan writes about the underlying demons of western Europe in his new novel, Black Dogs.

Part I: Canadian biographer Phyllis Grosskurth turns the spotlight on her own life in her new memoir, Elusive Subject. Part II: Carol Shields on writing for the stage and radio.

An interview with a remarkable psychoanalytic thinker - Adam Phillips. The author of On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored is interested in nothing less than how to live at the end of the 20th century.