Wachtel, Eleanor

Interviews with Caryl Phillips and Alice Adams
Interviews with Ann-Marie Macdonald and Roger Shattuck
Penelope Lively on her novel Heat Wave
Gita Mehta on the beauty and history of India and on her novel Snakes & Ladders
English author Margaret Forster on Shadow Baby
Jonathan Raban on Bad Land: An American Romance
Indian novelist Anita Desai on Journey to Ithaca
A special tribute to W.H. Auden, with Richard Davenport-Hines and Thekla Clark
Poet Maxine Kumin discusses and reads her work, and critic Terry Castle on the friendship of Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall
Biographer Susannah Clapp on the remarkable life of Bruce Chatwin
Humanist neurologist Oliver Sacks on The Island of the Colorblind
Tobias Wolff on his new collection The Night in Question
Biographer John Felstiner on the poet Paul Celan
Louis Begley on About Schmidt
Barbara Kingsolver discusses her life and work
Interviews with poet Yehuda Amichai and novelist Romesh Gunesekera
Martha Nussbaum on Poetic Justice, and Mavis Gallant reads "When We Were Nearly Young"
Interview with South African novelist André Brink
British biographer Hermione Lee on Virginia Woolf
German author Pater Schneider on Couplings
Interviews with William Kennedy and Graham Swift
A rare interview with poet John Ashbery
Alice Hoffman on Practical Magic, and John Berger reads "Mother"
Julian Barnes on his new book of short stories, Cross Channel
An interview with Booker Prize-winning English writer Penelope Fitzgerald