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INTERVIEW and READING: American writer Andre Dubus discusses the themes of masculine identity and physical disability in his collection of personal essays, Broken Vessels. Dubus reads from his essay "Husbands.". INTERVIEW: American historian Simon Schama discusses his fact-based novel Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations).

This week of Writers & Company - terrorism and society. Art historian and critic, Simon Schama, Emeritus Professor of English, Roger Shattuck and novelist and biographer, Margaret Drabble reflect on the attack in the United States.

American novelist Russell Banks, Canadian poet and novelist Dionne Brand, New York art historian and critic Simon Schama, and English biographer and novelist, Victoria Glendinning, reflect on writing in times of crisis. Includes readings by the panellists from poets and writers whose work expresses responses to crisis.

Eleanor Wachtel interviews British American historian Simon Schama. Eminently readable and provocative, Schama won a popular following with Citizens, his unconventional history of the French Revolution. Now he's written another book that defies categories called Landscape and Memory.