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This week, Eleanor has a lively and entertaining conversation from the International Festival of Authors with two wonderful writers - Marilynne Robinson and Colm Tóibín.

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.

Canadian-born American novelist Rivka Galchen talks to Eleanor Wachtel about her new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, which reimagines the real-life witch trial of the mother of the renowned 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. *Note: The audio for this episode was recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown and contains occasional low-level equipment-related distortion.

Eleanor speaks with British poet, author and translator David Constantine about his new novel, The Life-Writer, and his short story collection, 'In Another Country.' The title story was the inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film, 45 Years.