Category: 3-BookTalkSometimeCommentary

American crime writer Sara Paretsky talks to Harriett Gilbert about her detective novel 'Indemnity Only'.

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and John Dickerson discuss The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

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A special fifth-anniversary edition of the World Book Club with the Sri Lankan-born, Canadian author Michael Ondaatje who discusses his best-loved novel 'The English Patient'.

Image: Michael Ondaatje, Credit: Prakash SinghAFP/Getty Images

Harriett Gilbert talks to American author Armistead Maupin about his novel Tales of the City.

Thomas Keneally discusses his novel Schindler's Ark published in 1982 - released as Schindler's List in the USA. It is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving hundreds of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death during World War II by employing them in his factory. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

(Photo: Tom Keneally) (Credit: BBC)

Richard Dawkins answers questions from an audience and sent in by BBC listeners about his international best-seller, The Selfish Gene. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and John Burnham Schwartz discuss the novel The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.

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Wole Soyinka talks about his memoirs Ake: The Years of Childhood. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Meghan O'Rourke, and Katie Roiphe discuss the novel The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, along with a new biography of Wharton by Hermione Lee. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read The House of Mirth before listening to this audio program.

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World Book club with author Mario Vargas Llosa.