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Maryse Condé's writing plus Suzanne O'Sullivan
Shahidha Bari reads I Tituba, the story of the West Indian slave accused in Salem.

Jacques Tati's Trafic
Matthew Sweet, Adam Scovell, Muriel Zagha and Phuong Le on the 1971 French comedy.

Octavia Butler's Kindred
A novel from 1979 which uses time travel to explore race, slavery and trauma.

Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Matthew Sweet re-reads a classic of French postmodernism.

Milton: Samson Agonistes
Rana Mitter looks at the way politics, blindness and the Bible fed into this dramatic poem

The Liverpool Biennial Debate
How to reflect Liverpool's history in new artworks: Anne McElvoy hosts a discussion.

Spy Talk
From a secret Iraqi cell to new revelations of Cold War exploits. Rana Mitter hosts.

From Blackface to Beyoncé
Hanif Abdurraqib, Dawn Walton, Adjoa Osei on black performers from jazz to the Super Bowl

Writing about Faith
Stand-up Frank Skinner and novelists Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi talk to Laurence Scott.

Churchill's Reputation
Anne McElvoy and guests on attitudes to the politician, his rhetoric and foreign policies.