Wachtel, Eleanor

David Grossman on his book Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
A panel on Wagner's Ring cycle, with John Deathridge and Andy Orchard
American author Allegra Goodman on her novel Intuition
An interview with Ruth Reichl, known as the Queen of Food Writing
British author and playwright, Alan Bennett, on his new book Untold Stories
Maria Fairweather on Madame de Staël, the most influential woman in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.
Dava Sobel on The Planets
From the Toronto International Festival of Authors - novelist Jonathan Safran Foer speaks with Eleanor about his writing and newest novel
One of America's most brilliant writers, Joan Didion, on her new memoir The Year of Magical Thinking
Vikram Seth on his new memoir of his family, Two Lives
Hilary Mantel explores the dark side of the psyche in her new novel, Beyond Black
Zadie Smith's On Beauty
Where Does Poetry Come From?: From Dublin, a Griffin Poetry Prize panel
Author and literary historian Stephen Greenblatt on the life of 'The Bard' - William Shakespeare
The Writer Behind the Image - On Franz Kafka, with biographer Nicholas Murray
Jenny Diski on After These Things
Christopher Ricks on the poetry of Bob Dylan's lyrics
Edward P. Jones on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Known World
When Private Lives Go Public: a panel
Tom Wolfe on his novel I am Charlotte Simmons
Biographer Adam Feinstein on Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
Lynne Truss on the important (and humorous) role of punctuation, and a preview of next week's discussion with Adam Feinstein on the poet Pablo Neruda
David Mitchell discusses his ambitious new novel, Cloud Atlas
Alice Munro on her new book, Runaway
Jonathan Lethem o growing up in Brooklyn N.Y., and his novel The Fortress of Solitude