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From New Delhi, India - award-winning novelist Arundhati Roy. Twenty years after her Booker Prize-winning, debut novel, The God of Small Things, she's back with a new book - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - which explores gender identity, nationalism, Kashmiri independence, and many forms of both violence and love.

From Alexandria and New York, Eleanor speaks with André Aciman. His novel, Harvard Square, is an autobiographical story about an unlikely friendship between two immigrants to America.

The journalist and novelist talked to Eleanor Wachtel about his new book - Immigrant, Montana - which blends fiction and autobiography in a story about a young Indian man navigating college life in the United States.

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with American poet and novelist Ben Lerner. His recent book, Leaving the Atocha Station is being compared to the work of Fernando Pessoa and Albert Camus. It's the 33-year-old poet's first novel, and was named one of the best books of the year by many publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New Statesman.

American novelist and short story writer Marisa Silver was inspired by an iconic 1936 image of a migrant mother. She re-imagines the lives of the photographer and her subject in her new novel, Mary Coin.

Coming up on Writers and Company: from Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid. The writer of the hit novel and film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist has a new book called How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.

Tune in today for part five of the series Brazil Inside Out. Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz captures the arid landscape and machismo culture of Brazil's northeast in his work. His interest in sexual, race and class politics is reflected in his feature, Madame Sata, dramatizing the tumultuous life of the legendary flamboyant black performer, street fighter and criminal. Eleanor will also speak with Michel Laub, one of top names among the younger generation of Brazilian writers recently featured in a…