In a special edition, Matthew Sweet explores depictions of American life and history with authors Marilynne Robinson, Jane Smiley and Richard Ford. Show more
Matthew Sweet and his guests, Jane Smiley, Jane Haynes, Christopher Prendergast and Marie Darrieussecq, explore Proust's great novel In Search of Lost Time. Show more
Mariella Frostrup talks to Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley about her new novel Some Luck, the first in a planned trilogy. Plus the best new writing from Africa. Show more