Wachtel, Eleanor

"From Darkness to Light: The Nordic Imagination" Series, part 3, with Danish writer Dorthe Nors
"From Darkness to Light: The Nordic Imagination" Series, part 2, with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård
"From Darkness to Light: The Nordic Imagination" Series, part 1, with Swedish screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt
Philippe Sands maps the intersection of unspeakable crime and modern justice in East West Street
How Jane Austen inspired Amma Asante's films about race and class in Britain
Kapka Kassabova on the untold stories of Bulgaria's haunted borderland
From Zanzibar to England, Abdulrazak Gurnah explores the pain of dislocation
Richard Holmes reflects on his life as a 'Romantic biographer'
Colm Tóibín on redrawing Greek tragedy for modern times, and on the life of the poet, Elizabeth Bishop
David Bellos discusses Victor Hugo and why Les Misérables still resonates today in his new book The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
Daniel Mendelsohn on his journey with his father through Homer's Odyssey
John le Carré on his legacy as a spy-turned-novelist
Arundhati Roy on love, war and the fragility of happiness
Naturalist Charles Foster on how living like a badger helped him understand humans
Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders on love, war, and the American presidency
Elif Batuman on her love affair with Russian literature
Sebastian Barry on how his family's history inspires his fiction
David J. Skal talks about the enduring appeal of Dracula in his new book, Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula
British novelist Jo Baker on imagining the story beneath the story
Dutch writer Tommy Wieringa on what it means to be "home"
Christopher Kloeble & Francesca Melandri on facing Europe's past - through fiction
An interview with Swedish naturalist and cultural critic, Fredrik Sjöberg
American author Lee Smith on life in the Appalachian South
A conversation with one of England's greatest living poets, Alice Oswald
Karan Mahajan on his powerful new novel, The Association of Small Bombs